[cmake-developers] Bug introduced in generate-time target checking code

Stephen Kelly steveire at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 09:28:56 EDT 2012


Brad King wrote:

> On 10/16/2012 08:43 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> Still, some of the platforms fail the test, and don't give any
>> information about why:
>> 
>> 
http://open.cdash.org/testSummary.php?project=1&name=GeneratorExpression&date=2012-10-16
>> 
>> Can someone please provide more information (backtrace or further
>> investigation) for one of the failing platforms?
> 
> Borland Make and NMake both have an inline file syntax that starts with
> "<<":
> 
>  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z440c98k.aspx
> 
> The custom command generated by this test accidentally triggers that.
> I don't know if there is a way to escape it.  It's probably simplest
> for your purposes to just do something else in the test.
> 

The '<<' is exactly what the test is testing, so I'll just remove the 
offending tests.

Thanks for looking into it,

Steve.






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