hello Eric Doenges,

You are correct. This has been given me headaches.

Setting BUILD_ALWAYS to TRUE gives the desired behaviour.


Thank you


On 24/09/2019 14:59, Eric Doenges wrote:

You're probably missing the BUILD_ALWAYS option to ExternalProject_Add:

|BUILD_ALWAYS <bool>|
    Enabling this option forces the build step to always be run. This
    can be the easiest way to robustly ensure that the external
    project’s own build dependencies are evaluated rather than relying
    on the default success timestamp-based method. This option is not
    normally needed unless developers are expected to modify something
    the external project’s build depends on in a way that is not
    detectable via the step target dependencies (e.g. |SOURCE_DIR| is
    used without a download method and developers might modify the
    sources in |SOURCE_DIR|).
Am 24.09.19 um 15:23 schrieb hex:
hello,

I have a problem with a build step.

The following command is run every time somefile changes:

add_custom_command( OUTPUT out.put
    COMMAND touch out.put
    DEPENDS somefile.txt
)

add_custom_target( sometarget DEPENDS out.put )


I move this snippet inside an external project (with ExternalProject_Add) and the custom command is only run once at build.

I am using absolute path to somefile, the command is not rebuild changing somefile.

I am using Gnu make generator and build with make all


What am I missing?

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