[CMake] Creating a custom target on Windows - strange problem

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-09-12 13:05-0400 Brad King wrote:

> Arjen Markus wrote:
>>     add_custom_target(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${file} ALL
> [snip]
>> When I run this in ..\build, using
>>     cmake -G "NMake makefiles" ..\src
> [snip]
>> CMake Error: Cannot open file for write:
>> C:/arjen/plplot-5.6.1-cmake/testcbs/build/CMakeFiles/C:/arjen/plplot-5.6.1-cmake/testcbs/build/x02.dir/build.make.tmp
>
> You're creating a high-level target named
> "C:/arjen/plplot-5.6.1-cmake/testcbs/build/x02" which is invalid.  I'll
> look into adding a better diagnostic for this.

Thanks for this explanation, Brad.  This high-level target style (with
absolute path part of the target name) works fine for the PLplot Unix build,
but was causing the problems Arjen mentioned for the PLplot windows build.
Now that we know the reason for the problem for the windows build, I will
change styles.

Alan
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