On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Eric Noulard <eric.noul...@gmail.com>wrote:

> 2011/4/25 James Bigler <jamesbig...@gmail.com>:
> > If I have a custom command:
> >
> > add_custom_command(OUTPUT myfile.out)
> >
> > Then I add that file to the target:
> >
> > add_executable(mytarget main.cpp myfile.out)
> >
> > If I do a 'make help' I get rules for main.o, but none for myfile.out.
> Is
> > there something I can add to create a helper makefile target?
>
> I think there is no "help" for custom command
> but there should be one for custom **target**.
>
> You could try to :
> add_custom_target(myfile-out DEPENDS myfile.out COMMENT "Your help string")
>
>
> --
> Erk
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>

Yeah, that's not going to work.  I can't have a target for every single
generated file in my build (10s to 100s).  That would make the VS solution a
nightmare.

James
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