[CMake] List operations

[Ryan Pavlik]

Yep, that sounds fine - just wanted to put the warning out there since it's
a common issue.

Ryan

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:30 AM, kent williams <nkwmailinglists at gmail.com>wrote:

> The particular reason I use file(GLOB is that I want to find instances
> of, for example tclsh -- tclsh tclsh8.5, tclsh8.4 -- whatever it
> happens to be named -- so I can remove it from the directory into
> which it's built.
>
> The main reason as near as I can figure NOT to use file(GLOB to build
> lists of source files is that you have to re-run cmake to pick up any
> files added or deleted, right?
>
> In my particular case, I'm running CMake using -P as a script
> processor, so there's no problem with the cache getting out of sync.
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Ryan Pavlik <rpavlik at iastate.edu> wrote:
> > And, just as a caution: Don't use file(GLOB to create a list of source
> files
> > to compile.  Search the wiki or the archives for info.
> > Ryan
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12.01.11 11:56:53, kent williams wrote:
> >> > I'm generating a list of files with file(GLOB), but then I want to
> >> > remove some filenames from the resulting list.
> >> >
> >> > So essentially I'd like a CMake function like this
> >> >
> >> > function(RemoveItemsFromList ListA ListToRemove)
> >> > endfunction(RemoveItemsFromList)
> >> >
> >> > and I don't know what to put in the middle ;-)
> >>
> >> There's no need for a function, the list() function can already do that:
> >>
> >> list( REMOVE_ITEM yourlist ${listToRemove} )
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >>
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