Well, if the file needs to have the substitutions performed, like after an edit, CMake will have to run. What you could do is write a standalone cmake script that just does the configure file step, then add it as a custom command on a custom target, just running that configure script in script mode and passing the needed variables on the command line. Then, a change in your python file won't trigger a full cmake configure: it will just run the small cmake script that essentially exists to apply the variable substitutions.
Ryan On Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 4:00 PM Neil Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working within a very large project on a python script. The script > gets passed through configure_file to replace some @VAR@ strings with > some file paths that are defined when cmake is run; this generates the > final script. The side effect is that whenever I modify the file and run > make, it re-runs cmake to regenerate the build system, and that cascades > into all sorts of other things that are completely orthogonal to the script > being rebuilt. Is there some more appropriate alternative to > configure_file that should be used instead? Thanks for your expert advice! > -- > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more > information on each offering, please visit: > > CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html > CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html > CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
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