[cmake-developers] custom_command rebuild output file when depend files change?

[Robert Goulet]

> Are these absolute paths?

Yes. All absolute file paths.

> Where is the output file referenced?  It needs to be in a target somewhere.

Forgot to mention, we also do this after:
set_source_files_properties(${OUTPUT_FILE} PROPERTIES GENERATED 1)
list(APPEND SOURCE_FILES ${OUTPUT_FILE})
[...]
add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} STATIC ${SOURCE_FILES})


-----Original Message-----
From: Brad King [mailto:brad.king at kitware.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 1:33 PM
To: Robert Goulet
Cc: cmake-developers at cmake.org
Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] custom_command rebuild output file when depend files change?

On 06/01/2015 01:19 PM, Robert Goulet wrote:
> Does CMake custom_command rebuild the output file if the dependency 
> files change?

Yes, it should.  This is well tested.

> DEPENDS ${INPUT_FILES}

Are these absolute paths?

> OUTPUT ${OUTPUT_FILE}

Where is the output file referenced?  It needs to be in a target somewhere.

-Brad