On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Michael Jackson wrote: > On Nov 26, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Eric Noulard wrote: > > 2008/11/26 Michael Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Is there a way to actually test to see if a target exists or has been > >> created? > >> > >> I am working on the boost-cmake stuff and I would to implement a > >> macro that > >> takes in requirements for a target (regression test). As it checks > >> those > >> requirements the macro will need to check to see if one of its > >> dependencies > >> has already been created. For example say I have a regression test > >> Foo and > >> it depends on a static-multi_threaded-debug build of the boost_system > >> library. > >> Now say the user has selected to NOT build static libraries. I > >> need to > >> check for the boost-system-static-multi-debug target and if it does > >> not > >> exists (which it will not in our example) add that target. > >> > >> Alternatively, what happens if I just add a new target and the new > >> target > >> already actually exists? Is that safe? > > > > Did you try > > if(TARGET target-name) > > > > cf > > > > cmake --help-command if > > -- > > Erk > > let me pull my head out of my ... thanks.. ;-O
That's new since I think 2.6.2, with older versions you can do get_target_property( ... TYPE ) This will return NOTFOUND if the target hasn't been created before. Alex _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
