[CMake] ADD_DEPENDENCIES Adding dependency to non-existent target: doc-test

[frederic heem]

On Monday 05 February 2007 6:47 pm, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2007-02-05 15:58+0100 frederic heem wrote:
> > Hi,
> > It seems that ADD_DEPENDENCIES does not allow to add a dependency to
> > every target. Here is a brief description of the problem:
> > A subdirectory contains a custom target to generate html from a docbook:
> >
> > ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(doc-test
> >                  COMMAND xmlto html
> > ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc/CallDocBook.xml
> >                  COMMENT "generate the html documentation")
> >
> > Each sub-subdirectory has to generate a chapter of the docbook:
> >
> >  ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(testFoo
> >                    COMMAND java -jar xalan.jar -in testFoo.xml -xsl
> > test.xsl -out testFooDocBook.xml)
> >  ADD_DEPENDENCIES(doc-test testFoo)
> >
> > Unfortunately, cmake complains about ADD_DEPENDENCIES(doc-test testFoo):
> > ADD_DEPENDENCIES Adding dependency to non-existent target: doc-test
> > If ADD_DEPENDENCIES is commented, make help shows the doc-test target.
> > Is there a way to overcome this problem ?
>
> The above order won't work (as you have found out), but I think you should
> be okay if you do the commands in the following order:
>
> ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(testFoo ...)
> ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(doc-test ...)
> ADD_DEPENDENCIES(doc-test testFoo)
>
thanks for the tips,  but unfortunately, that's not working as expected, 
running "make doc-test" results in 
testFoo1
doc-test
testFoo2
doc-test
testFoo3
doc-test
etc ...
 
The target doc-test shall run only once at the end when all target testFoon 
are executed.

> I use that pattern all the time even when the first command is done in
> a separate subdirectory.
>
> Alan
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