The documentation for execute_process has some room for improvement. We recently got burned by a problem that has existed since at least 2011: https://stackoverflow.com/q/6797395/608639 . Once we learned the problem we could research a bit. The problem cost us over 8 man hours when it should not have been a problem in the first place. Considering there's nothing special about us, it has probably wasted thousands of man hours over the years.
Here are the actionable items for the execute_process documentation task: * please clearly state the first argument is the command only, and not command + arguments * please clearly state whether arguments need to be quoted * please clearly state whether arguments need to be comma separated * please provide an example (or examples) to show how to specify multiple arguments for a command * please provide an example (or examples) to show how to redirect output when using a command Below is a typical case for us (https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt). If it looks pretty shitty, it probably is. That's the best we have been able to come up with based on the documentation. ********** -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
