On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Brad King <[email protected]> wrote: > Configure the script with the list as part of its source using > configure_file.
Simply brilliant. I love the ideas you're giving me here. I've been using CMake for years but I still miss out on coming up with good ideas like this. > If you go with the external script approach use the file(COPY) > command. It uses a timestamp-based decision so incremental updates > are very fast. Underneath it is the same logic used by CMake in its > implementation of "make install". Interesting, I always thought file(COPY) did a forced copy each time. Going back over the documentation for it, I now see that this is indeed documented but the wording is a bit strange so I never realized this behavior. Thanks a ton Brad, this saves me a ton of effort. However I still do agree about generator expressions in OUTPUT, so I still plan to pick this up when I can. 99% of the time I spend is digging through the code & debugging things, to try to understand how things work. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
