Yeah, ok, thanks. It actually does go wrong. You intend "all model files with *.obj extension" and suddenly it starts including C++ object files as well. But it's a bit of a pity to discard your "find all files in a specific category" script, included by all your apps, and start enumerating every file individually.
On Dec 23, 2011, at 5:20 PM, David Cole wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Daniel Dekkers wrote: >>> On 12/21/2011 05:25 PM, André Caron wrote: >>> Get rid of the file(GLOB ...). Never, ever use it unless you know >>> exactly what you're doing. Using it usually breaks something. >>> >>> On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:59 PM, David Cole wrote: >>> I agree with the advice to get rid of file(GLOB >>> >>> What's the alternative. Enumerate all your filenames by hand? >> >> Yes. This is no real problem as you need to do this only once. You can even >> use the current CMake code to MESSAGE() out whatever CMake currently finds >> using FILE(GLOB) and just copy that into your CMakeLists.txt >> >> Eike >> -- >> >> -- >> >> 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 > > > Just to clarify: the point of enumerating all your files in the > CMakeLists.txt file is so that when you add or remove a file, the > CMakeLists file changes, and can trigger a re-run of CMake based on > the usual "make' file dependency tracking. > > If you don't do it, and you use glob instead, then CMake does not know > when you've added or removed files from the file system, and so cannot > re-run automatically when (and only when) necessary. > > To use glob *and* get this sort of behavior, we'd have to institute > some sort of file-system-watcher that's always running. We don't > really want to get into the business of monitoring your disk for file > adds and removes... > > > :-) > David > -- > > 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 -- 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
