[cmake-developers] Feature request: file globbing in ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES

[CHEVRIER, Marc]

A more generic approach for cleanup actions is to add a new property which enables to specify a cmake script. And, in the script, everyone is free to do what he wants…
Example: set_directory_properties (PROPERTIES ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_SCRIPT "my_clean_script.cmake")

From: cmake-developers <cmake-developers-bounces at cmake.org> on behalf of Steve Lorimer <steve.lorimer at gmail.com>
Date: Friday 2 September 2016 at 01:32
To: "cmake-developers at cmake.org" <cmake-developers at cmake.org>
Subject: [cmake-developers] Feature request: file globbing in ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES

As part of our build process we tag certain binary files with version information such as git branch, number of commits, build variant etc.

Eg, for a binary called "app" we could install a file in the local source directory with the name "app.branch_foo.91.debug"

The shell globbing pattern that matches is "app.*[0-9]*"

I need a globbing pattern because the tag can change without the makefiles changing, so the tag can't be hardcoded into the makefile.

If I specify a globbing pattern for ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES it specifies this as an actual file

    set_directory_properties(PROPERTIES ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES app.*[0-9]*)

This results in

    file(REMOVE_RECURSE
        "../../../app/app.*[0-9]*"
        ...
    )

That doesn't work, because it's not a real file, it's a globbing pattern

I've tried adding a nested file(GLOB ...) into the set_directory_properties but that doesn't work either.

Is this a feature worthy of addition?

- the ability to specify a globbing pattern in set_directory_properties(PROPERTIES ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES ...)?
- the ability to specify a globbing pattern in file(REMOVE_RECURSE ...)?

TIA
Steve
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