[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015654]: Need generator expression CONFIG that works for both multi-config and single config generators

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15654 
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Reported By:                James Bigler
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15654
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-07-15 13:35 EDT
Last Modified:              2015-07-15 13:35 EDT
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Summary:                    Need generator expression CONFIG that works for both
multi-config and single config generators
Description: 
The value of $<CONFIG> works just fine for generators like Visual Studio (e.g.
Debug, RelWithDebInfo), but for generators like Makefiles it maps to
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE, which is less useful for doing stuff like this:

file(GENERATE ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/$<CONFIG>/myfile)

This will do the right thing for VS, but not for Makefile.  It would be helpful
to have such a value that could make this work.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2015-07-15 13:35 James Bigler   New Issue                                    
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