The PLplot build system needs to contatanate some files together. The cross-platform way we do this right now is to use cat if it is available (which handles the Unix case) and otherwise if the Windows cmd or command are available use the copy command. This method is somewhat fragile (one Windows user could not find any of cat, cmd, or command), and even when copy is used (for the cmd or command case), we are currently experimenting to see if Windows native paths are needed or not.
Just in case the PLplot developers have missed something, is there some more reliable way for us to concatanate files in a cross-platform way? Of course, the ideal way to avoid this mess would be to use the "cmake -E concatanate" command, but as far as I know that hasn't been implemented yet. File concatanation is a pretty fundamental capability so I am entering a plea here to the CMake developers to put this idea on their ToDo list (assuming it isn't there already). If the implementation is non-trivial and therefore has to be put off, let me know, and I will make a wish-list bug report for it. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
