[CMake] What is the proper way to handle additional non-object files generated by compilation?

[Maik Beckmann]

Am Freitag 23 Mai 2008 10:15:59 schrieb Alan W. Irwin:
> Thanks, Maik, for your additional response.  For now, I have only skimmed
> what you said and don't completely understand the implications, yet, but my
> first impression is it looks like something special for fortran *.mod files
> is done in the C++ code rather than something more general that would work
> for any language compiler that generated additional files beyond the normal
> object files.

Right.  I don't know If there is support for languages which always produce 
two or more files for each compilation.  If not, it shouldn't be very hard to 
add this.

> Later (see below) I will dig deeper into what you said as I try to figure
> out what is necessary to put the *.ali files generated by the Ada compiler
> on the list of files to be cleaned.
>
> The current status is my Ada support files work for 2.4.8 reasonably well
> (except for the "make clean" issue mentioned in this thread).  For those
> interested, a simple (hello, world) Ada test project to demonstrate this
> can be obtained using
>
> "svn checkout
> https://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/plplot/branches/test_cmake/test_
>ada test_ada"
>
> The project is completely self-contained and includes the Ada language
> support files.  You run the usual cmake and make commands to build an Ada
> library (consisting of one routine to output "hello, world") and an Ada
> executable which calls that one routine.
>
> Note, this simple test project does not work for 2.6.0 (probably because my
> current Ada language support files are in the 2.4.x style rather than the
> different style of the 2.6.0 language support files) so I will concentrate
> on that issue first, then get back to the "make clean" issue mentioned in
> this thread, later.

At the moment I'm busy learning xsl, but I will have a look.  

-- Maik