# make
# echo include CMakeFiles/test.dir/progress.make >>  CMakeFiles/test.dir/build.make
# make clean && make

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

project(test)
macro(addtests)
	foreach(x ${ARGN})
		add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${x} COMMAND touch ${x})
	endforeach(x)
endmacro(addtests)

set(files test1.txt test2.txt test3.txt test4.txt test5.txt test6.txt)
addtests(${files})
add_custom_target(test ALL DEPENDS ${files})

From ba8c4285c375f5667c5423e068fd9aaa7cb1d084 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Johan=20F=C3=A4nge?= <vastevaste@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:24:55 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix progress reporting in custom target (#0012441) 

Fix bug #0012441: "No progress reporting for add_custom_command"

Adds "include progress.make" to build.make, just like for
add_executable and add_library targets. The code was copied
from cmMakefileTargetGenerator::WriteCommonCodeRules().
---
 Source/cmMakefileUtilityTargetGenerator.cxx |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Source/cmMakefileUtilityTargetGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmMakefileUtilityTargetGenerator.cxx
index f52f7ab..a82c503 100644
--- a/Source/cmMakefileUtilityTargetGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmMakefileUtilityTargetGenerator.cxx
@@ -34,6 +34,20 @@ void cmMakefileUtilityTargetGenerator::WriteRuleFiles()
   *this->BuildFileStream
     << "# Utility rule file for " << this->Target->GetName() << ".\n\n";
 
+  if(!this->NoRuleMessages)
+    {
+    const char* root = (this->Makefile->IsOn("CMAKE_MAKE_INCLUDE_FROM_ROOT")?
+                      "$(CMAKE_BINARY_DIR)/" : "");
+    // Include the progress variables for the target.
+    *this->BuildFileStream
+      << "# Include the progress variables for this target.\n"
+      << this->LocalGenerator->IncludeDirective << " " << root
+      << this->Convert(this->ProgressFileNameFull.c_str(),
+                       cmLocalGenerator::HOME_OUTPUT,
+                       cmLocalGenerator::MAKEFILE)
+      << "\n\n";
+    }
+
   // write the custom commands for this target
   this->WriteTargetBuildRules();
 
-- 
1.7.4.1