Re: [CMake] getting a build parameter from a file

Why not just use configure_file to write ${metals} into the file... configure_file only actually touches/writes-to/updates the file if the contents are different... Then you can just depend on that file and you don't need a separate timestamp file. HTH, David C. On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:05

Re: [CMake] getting a build parameter from a file

On 2015-06-09, at 8:05 AM, David Cole dlrd...@aol.com wrote: Why not just use configure_file because I didn’t know about it. Thanks! to write ${metals} into the file... configure_file only actually touches/writes-to/updates the file if the contents are different... Then you can just

[CMake] getting a build parameter from a file

First, my cmake code does this: sets ${metals} from a cmake command-line argument compares the contents of ${metals} against the contents of a file to note whether the variable is being changed since the last run of cmake writes the new value to that file for next time call an