Alan, Thanks for the advice. Further comments below.
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:07:14AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2006-12-05 17:21-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > > I am a little concerned about the coincidence in names between your custom > command OUTPUT file and your custom target. That would have caused a > problem for 2.4.4 with exactly the symptoms you see (nothing happens), but > that bug has apparently been fixed in 2.4.5. Just to be sure, though, you > should temporarily rename your custom target plplot.jar to something else. I will check that. The output file name is slightly different (it includes the directory path), but I'm not sure CMake makes that distinction. I will try renaming. > How about solving this by creating the jar file every time (by dropping > the custom command with the OUTPUT plplot.jar and putting the equivalent > commands in the plplot.jar target)? My impression is that creating jar > files is a fast process so the user probably wouldn't even notice the > extra time this would take. I'd tried to avoid this for elegance, and because all the "small" tasks can add up to lead to a significant make time for even the case where nothing needs updating. You may be right in this instance though that it is the simplest solution. > Also, before going too much further with this you should see whether > cross-directory file DEPENDS actually work. When I was just starting to > work with cmake, I could never get that to work, but it may have > been my inexperience or a bug in the earlier version of cmake. On the other > hand, cmake may just not allow cross-directory file DEPENDS in which case > we are back to the solution I proposed above to create the jar file every > time you run make. I also worry about how this might or might not work. > I have some suggestions on alternatives for creating cross-directory DEPENDS > file lists, but depending on your response to the questions and comments > above we may not need them. I'll try your other suggestions first. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
