[CMake] Is it safe to add properties to custom target?

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Thu Dec 10 16:24:50 EST 2009


On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Marcel Loose wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In fact the subject title says it all. Is it safe to do, for example:
>
> add_custom_target(myTarget)
> set_target_properties(myTarget PROPERTIES
>   LOCATION ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
>
> It seems to work fine, but I'm not sure this is the right way to do it.

What should this do ?
It is safe to add your own custom properties, so you can query them later. If 
you want to force cmake to do something special by setting the LOCATION 
property, I'm sure either this doesn't work or this works accidentially but 
is not supported.

Alex


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