[CMake] 2.8.11-rc3 generator expression error (was: "Cannot restore timestamp" error on Windows)

[Stephen Kelly]

Brad King wrote:

> On 04/24/2013 09:11 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 09:02 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
>>>> I installed it and it ran one time and I didn't see the error, but it's
>>>> intermittent so that's not definitive.  Unfortunately one of my cmake
>>>> files failed (later on; this is a cmake file from a smaller
>>>> sub-project):
>>>>
>>>>         CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:190 (TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES):
>>>>         Error evaluating generator expression:
>>>>
>>>>           $<TARGET_PROPERTY:
$<$<CONFIG:DEBUG>:php5ts_debug>,INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES>
>>>>
>>>>         $<TARGET_PROPERTY:tgt,prop> expression requires a non-empty
>>>>         target name.

I'm not clear on whether this is intermittent or does it occur for you every 
time you run cmake for the project?

> Ideas?

None yet, but I'm in a rush at the moment.

>> The package I'm trying to build is here, FWIW:
>> 
>> https://github.com/nuodb/nuodb-php-pdo
>> 
>> The CMakeLists.txt file is here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/nuodb/nuodb-php-pdo/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt
> 
> I cloned that project but I'm unable to reproduce the generator expression
> error message with the Visual Studio 10 generator.

I tried on linux, but nuodb doesn't seem to be available via aptitude (so it 
fails at configure time), and I don't have time to dig into it right now.

Thanks,

Steve.