Better support for custom commands that generate multiple files needed.
Brad King
brad.king at kitware.com
Fri Apr 7 22:12:10 CEST 2006
Joseph Wenninger wrote:
> I haven't looked that deep into cmake yet, but is there a reason, why it
> doesn't it just allow multiple OUTPUT parameters ? (OUTPUT xyz OUTPUT
> asdf ....) ?
>
> I don't know how portable it is and what happens with parallel builds, but at
> least in gnu make you can write eg
>
> y.tab.c y.tab.h: myfile.y
> yacc -d myfile.y
>
> And the it usually works for me if a helper command generates more than one
> output file
There is no reason except that it hasn't been implemented in CMake. I'm
working on it now. AFAIK this multiple-output syntax works in all makes
supported by CMake. There is also similar support in Visual Studio
project files.
-Brad
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