[CMake] EXECUTE_PROCESS too good at running programs

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Sat Jul 22 08:17:57 EDT 2006


Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Ok, the CMake 2.4.2 documentation for the projectName version of 
> TRY_COMPILE is only 3 short sentences.  IIUYC, you are saying I'm going 
> to have to write a CMakeLists.txt wrapper, and a subdirectory, for each 
> and every tool like "makeinfo," if I want to prove that they work in the 
> build.

You can create a macro to wrap this all up.  The source tree for the 
TRY_COMPILE can be created with FILE(WRITE) and FILE(MAKE_DIRECTORY).

-Brad



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