Re: [Chicken-hackers] anybody good with cmake?

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:37:44AM -0400, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> On 8/16/07, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > If I understand the documentation (which is, indeed, horrible) correctly,
> > the ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(OUTPUT .. DEPENDS ..) creates _not_ a makefile target
> > (targets are symbolic names for high-level targets IIUC) but a FILE which
> > can be the DEPENDENCY for any TARGET.  So when you get to INSTALL it, you 
> > need
> > to refer to the FILE instead of the TARGET.
> 
> Correct.  OUTPUT produces a so-called file level dependency.
> 
> > (I feel like I am screaming here :P )
> 
> Yep.  Having a difference between file and target level dependencies
> majorly sucks as far as the initial learning curve goes.  The wart
> wouldn't be so bad if the documentation had chapters and so forth.

Actually, I was referring to the ALL CAPS words that were crowding out my
regular lowercase words :)

Peter
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