[CMake] string replacement without external commands help (ex. sed)

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-08-21 18:30+0300 Dizzy wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 August 2007 18:22:25 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>
>> Why do you need this from add_custom_command() ?
>
> So that I have the config file generation like a normal "build" target that
> depends on it's input file (ie project.conf is generated from project.conf.in
> and is only updated if there is no project.conf or project.conf.in has been
> updated in the meantime, just as any other target building dependency). Can I
> do it some other way?
>
>> I would suggest using plain configure_file().

Seconded.  CONFIGURE_FILE() properly handles the dependency of project.conf
on the template file project.conf.in configure_file() which addresses your
above dependency concern.  Try CONFIGURE_FILE(), and you will like it.

Alan
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