[CMake] Question about dependencies

[Carminati Federico]

Hello Micheal & *,
  sorry for the messed up posting, please forget it. Thanks to a bad connection I ended up posting a draft, I should have been more careful I realise I need some more work to submit a meaningful question to the list. Best, 



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On 9 Feb 2011, at 08:59, Michael Wild wrote:

> Apart from the typos already pointed out by Martin, what is the
> "define_custom_target()" command? Did you mean "add_custom_command()" or
> "add_custom_target()"? If so, the syntax is completely wrong. If you
> meant "add_dependencies()", then that is also wrong, because
> add_dependencies only operates on CMake-targets, not on individual
> files. In order to help, we need some more information, such as:
> 
> - How is factFile.xml (or whatever its name is) generated?
> - What is PACK-check? How is it defined?
> - What is the define_custom_target command? It certainly isn't a
> standard CMake command, so either it's another typo (is there a single
> word that isn't misspelled?!) or it's a custom macro/function in your
> project.
> 
> It would be best if you could post the relevant parts of your code.
> 
> 
> Michael
> 
> PS: Please, be more careful to avoid such ridiculous typos when posting.
> People here are not paid to help you (you could always get a support
> contract from Kitware, though) and are much less likely to answer if
> they have to first through heaps of sloppiness in order to figure out
> what you actually want from them. Just saying "sorry" without providing
> a fixed posting doesn't help to fix this situation either. IMHO it's
> also a matter of respect.
> 
> On 02/09/2011 02:38 AM, Carminati Federico wrote:
>> Martin,
>>  sorry for the stupid misspelling. The problem is real, only the message is misspelled. Best, 
>> 
>> Federico Carminati
>> 
>> 
>> On 9 Feb 2011, at 01:50, Martin O'Brien wrote:
>> 
>>> You have a number of typos there - are you sure that's not the problem?
>>> 
>>> CMAKE_BINAARY_DIR
>>> Factfile v. Facfile
>>> FACTILE v. FACTFILE
>>> 
>>> Mm
>>> 
>>> On Feb 8, 2011 6:48 PM, "Carminati Federico" <federico.carminati at cern.ch> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> May be this is a very simple question but... I have a fully qualified path name 
>>>> 
>>>> ${CMAKE_BINAARY_DIR}/factFile.xml
>>>> 
>>>> and I do 
>>>> 
>>>> set(FACTILE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/facFile.xml)
>>>> 
>>>> I am defining in subdirectories custom targets depending on this file
>>>> 
>>>> define_custom_target(PACK-check ${FACTFILE})
>>>> 
>>>> and the dependency is generated as 
>>>> 
>>>> PACK-check: factFile.xml
>>>> 
>>>> instead of
>>>> 
>>>> PACK-check: <expansion of CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}>/factFile.xml
>>>> 
>>>> Obviously when I am in the subdir I have the message that there is no way to build factFile.xml which is considered local to the subdirectory... I hope I have been clear. Please help. Thanks, 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Federico Carminati
> 
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