[CMake] Restrictions on where a binary can be put?

[Andreas Pakulat]

Hi,

I'm having a bit of a problem here changing the runtime output directory
for a binary. Its an executable target named 'setup' and I'd like to put it
into the top-level directory. Unfortunately it always ends up in the bin/
directory, which is what CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY is being set to.

I'm using
    set_target_properties( setup PROPERTIES RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} )
after creating the target currently, which should work as far as I can see
from the documentation. Are there maybe any restrictions on what the
directory may be or what targets can be put there?

If not, any suggestions how to debug this? I can see that the build.make
does already have the rule setup for putting the binary into bin/, so it
must be going wrong somewhere in the generation stage, but a simple cmake
--trace doesn't show up anything suspicious. Is there a switch to follow
the steps that cmake does during makefile-generation?

Andreas

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