[CMake] cmake: Duplicate file name conflict

Petr Kmoch petr.kmoch at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 03:03:47 EDT 2015


Hi Jan,

it'simpossible to answer such questions without seeing your setup. Can you
post your CMakeList and your directory structure?

Petr

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Jan Steinke <jan.steinke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I came across a problem, for me it seems that cmake does not allow header
> files to be have the same name. Or am I doing something wrong?
>
> I have two projects, a library and an application. Both have files with
> similar content, but the same file names. I am using cmake to compile the
> app and the aim is that cmake also compiles the library if it doesn't yet
> exist. I was stuck for a few days on that problem until I figured out that
> it was due to the same file names. When renaming the files in my
> application it builds correctly. Before I switched to cmake a week ago, I
> used qmake integrated into Qt Creator, and it compiled just fine.
>
> Is it wanted behavior, that cmake does not allow the same file names? Am I
> doing something wrong? Altough it works with renaming the files I would
> like to find a "cleaner" way that prevents this from happening in the
> future, having same file names is nothing you can prevent if you work in a
> team.
>
> I hope you are able to help me,
> Jan
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