[CMake] __FILE__ relative path

[J Decker]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 27. Dezember 2011, 09:18:15 schrieb J Decker:
>> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
>> > Am Dienstag, 27. Dezember 2011, 14:58:32 schrieb vivek goel:
>> >> How can I make cmake to compile source with relative path ?
>> >>
>> >> So that __FILE__ belongs to relative path of the file
>> >>
>> >> or there is another way I can replace __FILE__ with some other variable ?
>>
>> relative path to what?  What is it you need the path to be?
>>
>> > __FILE__ is implemented by the compiler, it has nothing to do with CMake.
>> > What
>> Well, it does have a little to do with CMake; the variable is the
>> filename passed to the compiler, which comes from cmake.
>
> Yes, but the compiler is free to convert it to an absolute path or do whatever
> it wants with it.

But they never do (gcc, watcom, visual studio, lcc)

>
> Eike
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