Am Sonntag 01 November 2009 05:25:03 schrieb Alan W. Irwin: > The PLplot build system needs to contatanate some files together. The > cross-platform way we do this right now is to use cat if it is available > (which handles the Unix case) and otherwise if the Windows cmd or command > are available use the copy command. This method is somewhat fragile (one > Windows user could not find any of cat, cmd, or command), and even when > copy is used (for the cmd or command case), we are currently experimenting > to see if Windows native paths are needed or not. > > Just in case the PLplot developers have missed something, is there some > more reliable way for us to concatanate files in a cross-platform way? > > Of course, the ideal way to avoid this mess would be to use the "cmake -E > concatanate" command, but as far as I know that hasn't been implemented > yet. File concatanation is a pretty fundamental capability so I am > entering a plea here to the CMake developers to put this idea on their > ToDo list (assuming it isn't there already). If the implementation is > non-trivial and therefore has to be put off, let me know, and I will make > a wish-list bug report for it.
See the file() command. You can easily write a cmake script to use at configuration or at build time. HS _______________________________________________ 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
