On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Alexander Neundorf < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Done, see http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8906 /Hugo Heden
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