[cmake-developers] Invalid/Reserved target names

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2013-11-15 04:05, Nils Gladitz wrote:
> I would like to hijack/extend Stephen's changes in
> 05f5fde0eb83c0e49aab3214f28a098861aa3313
> to also disallow target names that have been implicitly reserved by some
> of the generators.
>
> This list might not be complete but I assume it would be at least:
>      all, help, clean, edit_cache, rebuild_cache, test, package,
> package_source, PACKAGE, ZERO_CHECK
>
> Would anyone be opposed to this?
> Could I extend the existing policy, should I create a new one or would
> it be ok without any policy even?

I haven't done so yet, but I've considered once or twice creating a 
'clean' target in case the generator is ninja. Possibly someone has 
already done that. Maybe only disallow target names that the generator 
actually uses? (Or should we teach CMake to make a 'clean' target for 
ninja? :-) That could probably be done separately, but if 'clean' is 
disallowed unconditionally it feels like that should be "on the radar" 
of things to do.)

-- 
Matthew