[CMake] add_custom_command, POST_BUILD

[Magnus Therning]

Vladimir Chebotarev <vladimir.chebotarev at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi there.
>
> At the moment one can add a command executing after a build of a target
> using:
> add_custom_command(... POST_BUILD...)
>
> However if the command have a dependencies which build after the target,
> there is practically no way to specify it.
>
> Simple case: we have a library and tests for it. E.g. I want them to run in
> POST_BUILD of a library. But, tests already depends on the library so I
> can't make them built before it.
>
> There are few possible solutions to that:
> 1) add possibility to set dependencies for add_custom_command in POST_BUILD
> mode;
> 2) add possibility to populate list of targets if we have specified ones in
> list.
>
> Or maybe correct me if I miss something.

Have you not simply missed add_test()? ;)

What's the reason for wanting the tests to run post-build, rather than
on `make test`?

/M

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