On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Johan Björk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just started using the NMake generator, and ran into an issue that > is probably trivial to fix for someone who knows the generator code. > If one of the steps for the makefile contains a trailing directory > separator, it will escape the newline and result in an invalid > command. > > ie (Untested, just wrote something up that should reproduce) > > ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(OUTPUT foo COMMAND cmake -E copy file > ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/a.c ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/foo/bar/). CMake > will correctly escape all the unix newlines to '\', but also the last > one, which results in NMake treating the next line as part of the > command. > > Not very familiar with either Windows nor NMake, so I don't know what > the correct fix is.. Add an extra space if the last character is a \ ? > > /Johan > > BTW: It also happens for WORKING_DIRECTORY. > _______________________________________________ > cmake-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers >
Can you eliminate the trailing slash? It's not required, is it? If it is, certainly adding a space is an option. Can we add a space ourselves in the generator? Or are there cases where people are depending on the current behavior in some way.... Is that possible, or just crazy thinking? David _______________________________________________ cmake-developers mailing list [email protected] http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
