Hi Leif. I'm not on a machine with cmake now so I can't test, but I guess the variable PROJECT_NAME is empty if no project() has been called yet.
Petr On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Leif Walsh <leif.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Suppose I have two projects, A and B. A builds a shared lib that links with > a static lib in B. > > Sometimes, I want to build and test B by itself. Other times I want to build > A, which requires building B. > > For now, I manually (or with a script) build B, then set an environment > variable to say where the built static lib is, and then build A (which uses > the environment variable). This is...not superb. > > If I wrote A's CMakeLists.txt to have add_subdirectory(B), it would error > when it hit B's project(B). It probably would work (with some tweaking) if I > removed project(B), but then I couldn't build B by itself. > > Is there a "right way" to do this? Is there a good, reliable way to detect > that project(A) has already been called, and then (if that's the case) skip > project(B)? Will that work? > > -- > Cheers, > Leif > > -- > > 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
