I solved it with writing out a bash script which checks the existence of some files to not recompile the external library every time. after that I just add the add_custom_target because it needed to be made dependable on some other targets.
Thanks a lot for your hints Rodolfo! On 12/22/07, Brandon Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 22, 2007 4:25 PM, Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Note, you don't have to do any of the above with add_custom_command. In > > principle, you could also do those external builds with execute_process. > > The difference, of course, is execute_process runs at CMake time so that > > solves the issue we discussed before of wx-config from your build of > > wxwidgets not being available at CMake time for the rest of your build. > > This will fail. execute_process runs in CMake's environment, not your > build environment. Same reason we have to write try_compile and > try_run instead of just doing execute_process. > > > Cheers, > Brandon Van Every > _______________________________________________ > CMake mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake > _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
