[CMake] CONFIGURE_FILE won't overwrite existing file?

[David Cole]

Yes it does... It's a "copy if different" operation.

On 8/10/07, Christian Convey <christian.convey at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks to me like CONFIGURE_FILE is a no-op when the target file
> already exists *and* has the exact same content that it would have if
> CONFIGURE_FILE ran.
>
> I'm basing me belief by looking running some experiments and looking
> at timestamps.
>
> But this isn't mentioned in the online docs for CONFIGURE_FILE.
>
> Does anyone know if it works the way I describe?
>
> - Chrsitian
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