The following issue has been SUBMITTED.
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15605
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Reported By: Lekensteyn
Assigned To:
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Project: CMake
Issue ID: 15605
Category: Documentation
Reproducibility: N/A
Severity: text
Priority: normal
Status: new
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Date Submitted: 2015-06-07 15:52 EDT
Last Modified: 2015-06-07 15:52 EDT
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Summary: Mention TARGET_FILE for COMMAND option of
add_custom_command
Description:
While trying to set an environment variable in an add_custom_command target, I
found http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2006-March/008522.html which
describes this syntax:
add_custom_command(TARGET foo
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env
VAR=VAL somecommand ...)
This works when somecommand is a system command, but in my case it was an
executable which was previously added by add_executable(somecommand ...).
The documentation at
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.2/command/add_custom_command.html describes
how this special behavior works:
"If COMMAND specifies an executable target (created by the add_executable()
command) it will automatically be replaced by the location of the executable
created at build time."
While the following paragraph mentions generator expressions (thanks again Nils
Gladitz!), it would help if $<TARGET_FILE:somecommand> was mentioned in the same
sentence for cases like the above (cmake -E env).
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Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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2015-06-07 15:52 Lekensteyn New Issue
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