On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David Cole <david.c...@kitware.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:19 PM, James Bigler <jamesbig...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I recently switched to 2.8.5 and noticed something strange. >> >> I have several files that build into a Debug|Release agnostic place. If I >> build it in one then switch to the other the files don't regenerate, because >> the build rule has been satisfied. >> >> With CMake 2.8.5 and VS 2010 I noticed something strange. It wanted to >> build the files in both debug and release. I then looked at the vsproj >> files and I noticed this: >> >> <Outputs >> Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='RelWithDebInfo|Win32'">C:\code\build-32-vs10-c40\lib\myfile_build.txt;%(Outputs)</Outputs> >> >> %(Outputs)??? Why is that in there. If I manually remove $(Outputs) then >> it stops rebuilding my files. >> >> James >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cmake-developers mailing list >> cmake-developers@cmake.org >> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers >> >> > > The "%(Attribute)" notation means inherit the value from the same > element in my "parent". So for a file's attribute, it typically > inherits the value from the same named attribute in the project. > > In this case, I'm not entirely sure why it's there, but it's been > there right from the very first commit adding the VS 10 generator to > CMake: http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=7491f529 > > I can't think of the reason why it might be needed off the top of my > head, so ... I'll try to remove it and see if all the tests pass. If > they do, I suppose it should be ok to remove it. Does anybody else > reading this thread have any other information? > > Thanks, > David >
I constructed a custom build command that runs a batch file and outputs a text file solely via the VS10 IDE... and there was no "%(Outputs)" in the vcxproj file. So I think it's safe to remove this. I'll push a change that does that. Thanks for the report, David _______________________________________________ cmake-developers mailing list cmake-developers@cmake.org http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers