[CMake] Question about ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND

[Carminati Federico]

Dear Michael,
    Thanks a lot! I upgraded cmake to the git "next" version and indeed it works now. Best regards, 

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On 13 Feb 2011, at 05:34, Michael Hertling wrote:

> On 02/12/2011 03:00 PM, Carminati Federico wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>    I have a question about ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND. I read in the doc
>> 
>> "If DEPENDS specifies any target (created by an ADD_* command) a target-level dependency is created to make sure the target is built before any target using this custom command. Additionally, if the target is an executable or library a file-level dependency is created to cause the custom command to re-run whenever the target is recompiled."
>> 
>> However if I add to the DEPENDS list a target built with ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET, first the target is correctly scanned and built, then make crashes because it considers it also a file dependencies and looks for a file with the same name of the target. Is this the normal behaviour? I can fix it with
>> 
>> ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(all-todo COMMAND touch all-todo)
>> ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(OUTPUT ... COMMAND ... DEPENDS all-todo ....)
> 
> See http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11332#c22532.
> 
> This should be fixed in CMake 2.8.4.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael
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