[CMake] How to make executable depend on pre-existing control file?

[a.neundorf-work at gmx.net]

On Thursday 12 April 2007 19:33, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Trevor Kellaway wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm try to get my link to depend on a pre-existing file that contains
> > linker segment information "link.prm".
> >
> > I thought that by just adding this to the executable dependency list
> > this should work:
> >
> >         ADD_EXECUTABLE (${THIS_APP} ${THIS_SRC}
> > ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/link.prm)
> >
> > Alas, it seems to have no effect. The generated "build.make" contains
> > no dependency references for "link.prm".
> >
> > Is this the correct way of doing this?
>
> ADD_EXECUTABLE isn't taking a dependency list.  It's taking a list of
> source files used to build.  If link.prm has no relevance to the build,
> I'll wager that it is discarded.  

In recent cmake version (I think since 2.4.3) the correct way to specify the 
dependency to generated source files is to add them to the list of sources.  
So actually it should work.

Alex