[CMake] equivalent target for Makefile construct

[Brad King]

Alexander Stippler wrote:
> I'm quite new to CMake and just evaluating it as an alternative to 
> autotools. I'm just trying to port one of my projects to CMake and do 
> not know how to transform a certain Makefile to it. Perhaps someone can 
> give me a hint how the equivalent to the following targets would be 
> modelled with CMake:
> 
> CUTEE=./cutee
> t_runners=views.cutee.cc.
> 
> %.cutee.cc: $(srcdir)/%.h
>     $(CUTEE) -o $@ $<
> 
> 
> runtest.cc: cutee
>     $(CUTEE) -m -o $@
> 
> How are such constructions realized?

This is a custom command.  Use the ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND command.  See the 
documentation here:

http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Documentation.html

or run "cmake --help-command ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND".

-Brad