Thanks Andreas, but that leaves us with having to edit the CMakeLists.txt every time we add a pattern file. There must be a better way?
On 17 January 2012 13:02, Andreas Pakulat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17.01.12 12:54:28, Tim Hutton wrote: >> We've got this section in our CMakeLists.txt: >> >> #--------------------------copy pattern files to build >> folder--------------------------------- >> >> file( GLOB_RECURSE pattern_files RELATIVE >> "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/" "patterns/*.vti" ) >> foreach( pattern_file ${pattern_files} ) >> add_custom_command( >> OUTPUT "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${pattern_file}" >> COMMAND cmake -E copy >> "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${pattern_file}" >> "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${pattern_file}" >> DEPENDS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${pattern_file}" >> ) >> list( APPEND pattern_files_dest "${pattern_file}" ) >> endforeach( pattern_file ) >> >> add_custom_target( CopyPatterns ALL DEPENDS ${pattern_files_dest} ) >> >> #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> The idea is to copy all the *.vti files in the "patterns" folder (and >> subfolders) into the build folder, so our program can load them. This >> works fine when running CMake for the first time. However, if we add a >> new pattern file it doesn't get picked up, even after make clean. (It >> works if we edit the CMakeLists.txt, or delete everything in the build >> folder.) Is there a way to make this work every time? > > Don't use GLOB, but list all files individually in a variable and > iterate over that. CMake is not executed when doing a make call and no > cmake-related file has changed and hence the above code is not re-run on > each make call. > > Andreas > > -- > > 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 -- Tim Hutton - http://www.sq3.org.uk - http://profiles.google.com/tim.hutton/ -- 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
