[CMake] Generate and install a file

Norton Allen allen at huarp.harvard.edu
Thu Mar 28 15:26:09 EDT 2019


On 3/28/2019 3:11 PM, Kyle Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 14:58 -0400, Norton Allen wrote:
>>
>> because mygeneratedfile is not a 'target', and I can't make it into a 
>> target with add_custom_target() because that's talking about 
>> something else entirely (commands that will be run unconditionally, 
>> not based on dependencies)
>>
>
> What exactly do you mean by "based on dependencies"? Do you mean that 
> this file has dependencies on something else, or that something else 
> has dependencies on it?

I mean this file depends on some source files--if the source files 
change, I want to rerun the generation step.


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