Nasty error message
Adam Treat
treat at kde.org
Wed Jul 12 19:01:44 CEST 2006
I had a class called Foo that was declared and implemented in the standard
files foo.cpp and foo.h
Foo inherited QObject and had the customary moc
include directive at the bottom: #include "foo.moc"
During the course of events, I decided to rename this class FooBar, so I
changed the filename to foobar.cpp and foobar.h, respectively. Unfortunately,
I forgot to change the include directive foo.moc :(
CMake did not like this and would not build, complaining that it could not
find the required file "foo.h"
So, I went through my source directory and could find no mention of foo.h nor
could I find the file. grep foo.h * -r in the src directory AND build
directory turned up absolutely nothing. I deleted the build directory and
started over. Same error message. I could not figure out how in the hell
would cmake complain to me about a file that was not mentioned ANYWHERE in
any file in either the source directory or the build directory.
After quite a lot of lost time, I finally figured out that it was referring to
the foo.moc directive that I forgot to change.
Could the CMake gurus be so kind as to have CMake complain about foo.moc
instead of foo.h if this happens again?
Adam
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