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<div class="moz-forward-container"> hello Eric Doenges,
<p>You are correct. This has been given me headaches. <br>
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<p>Setting BUILD_ALWAYS to TRUE gives the desired behaviour. <br>
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<p>Thank you<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/09/2019 14:59, Eric Doenges
wrote:<br>
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<p>You're probably missing the BUILD_ALWAYS option to
ExternalProject_Add:</p>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BUILD_ALWAYS</span>
<span class="pre"><bool></span></code></dt>
<dd>Enabling this option forces the build step to always be run.
This can be the easiest way to robustly ensure that the
external project’s own build dependencies are evaluated rather
than relying on the default success timestamp-based method.
This option is not normally needed unless developers are
expected to modify something the external project’s build
depends on in a way that is not detectable via the step target
dependencies (e.g. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span
class="pre">SOURCE_DIR</span></code> is used without a
download method and developers might modify the sources in <code
class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SOURCE_DIR</span></code>).</dd>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 24.09.19 um 15:23 schrieb hex:<br>
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cite="mid:6e50496c-706c-a037-fc54-3f1880a86cf4@gmail.com">hello,
<br>
<br>
I have a problem with a build step. <br>
<br>
The following command is run every time somefile changes: <br>
<br>
add_custom_command( OUTPUT out.put <br>
COMMAND touch out.put <br>
DEPENDS somefile.txt <br>
) <br>
<br>
add_custom_target( sometarget DEPENDS out.put ) <br>
<br>
<br>
I move this snippet inside an external project (with
ExternalProject_Add) and the custom command is only run once
at build. <br>
<br>
I am using absolute path to somefile, the command is not
rebuild changing somefile. <br>
<br>
I am using Gnu make generator and build with make all <br>
<br>
<br>
What am I missing? <br>
<br>
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