On 12/16/2013 09:23 AM, Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote: > After some tests I managed to reproduce the behaviour in this test that > fails, both with ninja (always) and with make -j2 (only sometimes), but > I'm no longer sure if this is a bug or not. [snip] > The problem seems to be that the file level dependency is not set, if > I add: > > add_custom_command(APPEND > OUTPUT ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/CMakeFiles/Proj2-step-stamp > DEPENDS Proj1) > > the dependency issue is fixed. > > So maybe this is just a bug in this CMake code and not in CMake. > Nonetheless I think it should be possible to do something like > add_dependencies(Proj2-step Proj1) for targets created with ExternalProjects > without caring about file level dependencies... what do you think? > > Maybe adding a function > ExternalProject_Add_Dependencies(name step targets) > that internally calls both add_dependencies and add_custom_command(APPEND)?
Yes, I think that makes sense. Perhaps ExternalProject_Add_Step_Dependencies ? -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers