[CMake] cmp0026, file(GENERATE...), and configure_file

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2015-04-23 06:47-0400 David Cole wrote:

> Should it be configure_file(GENERATE or file(CONFIGURE_AND_GENERATE ??

The first (or configure_file_generate, see below) would be my preference.

> In the meantime, while it is certainly clumsy to do the two separate
> commands everywhere, you could write a CMake language
> function(configure_file_generate ...) that takes the same args as
> configure_file, but does the two step in its implementation.

That is a good idea that should be straightforward for me to implement
as part of the PLplot build system.

Is there a standard way such a function could be used officially as
part of CMake?  In other words, are there some official CMake
functions now that are not written in C++ but are instead written as
CMake language functions?

Alan
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