On Friday 17 April 2009, Hugo Heden wrote: > The following example illustrates a possible bug. > > Consider the following CMakeLists.txt code. This little "project" should > fail when the target MyTarget is built (because one of the POST_BUILD > custom commands fails). > > =========================== > cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6) > > PROJECT( test ) > > ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET( MyTarget > COMMENT "This is MyTarget" > ) > > ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND( > TARGET MyTarget > POST_BUILD > COMMAND cmake -E blablablahh # Error (intentional error, to illustrate > buggy behaviour.) > VERBATIM > ) > > ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND( > TARGET MyTarget > POST_BUILD > COMMAND cmake -E echo "hello there" # Success. > VERBATIM > ) > ============================= > > However, running > > > cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" ..\source > > devenv test.sln /Build Debug /Project MyTarget.vcproj > > succeeds, which is not expected. (Right?). > > The problem seems to be that a succeeding custom command comes after the > failing one, and this sort of *hides* the failure somehow.. The fact that > failures are hidden like this is of course dangerous. (We have tests that > have been failing like this for a while that have not shown up as error in > our nightly builds.) When using other Generators and build tools (I have > tested with "NMake Makefiles" -- nmake on Windows and "Unix Makefiles" -- > Gnu-make on Linux) the build phase fails as expected. > > > cmake --version > > cmake version 2.6-patch 2 > > Any comments?
Please report this as a bug in the bug tracker. Alex _______________________________________________ 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
