Hi all,
After some hallway conversation, here is a follow-up:
The consensus was that there were 2 options for the documentation target:
+ Leave documentation out of the install step when documentation is not built
as part of the ALL target.
+ Change the configuration option for documentation from a boolean to a
tri-state enum, i.e.,
set(${PROJECT}_BUILD_DOCUMENTATION "never" CACHE STRING "When to build
documentation.")
set_property(CACHE ${PROJECT}_BUILD_DOCUMENTATION PROPERTY STRINGS never
manual always)
so that automated builds for continuous integration can function (using
"always" or "never")
while developers can enable documentation but not be forced to refresh it
every time they
modify source code (using "manual").
For the latter, a recent change[1] to CMake has made the execution of
install-rules consistently ordered when processing subdirectories, so it is
possible to make the INSTALL target build documentation as needed with
something like:
if (${PROJECT}_BUILD_DOCUMENTATION STREQUAL "manual")
install(CODE "execute_process(COMMAND \"${CMAKE_COMMAND}\" cmake --build
\"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}\" --target docs --config $<CONFIG>)")
endif()
so long as care is taken within each directory's CMakeLists.txt to place the
above before any install() directives related to the generated documentation.
David
[1]: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/2434
> On Oct 11, 2018, at 09:09, David Thompson <david.thomp...@kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to force a custom target (i.e., ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET) to be built
> just before installation?
>
> We have documentation added as a custom target that is **not** passed the
> "ALL" keyword because generating the documentation is slow. However, that
> target creates files that have a matching INSTALL, so "make install" or
> "ninja install" will fail unless the target is built before installation. We
> want to encourage developers to configure with documentation turned on, but
> want buildbot/dashboard builds to work without magic options or special
> configuration.
>
> Along those lines:
>
> 1. Is there any ordering of INSTALL(CODE ...) relative to INSTALL(FILES ...)?
> If it is guaranteed to run first, we could force the target to build that way.
>
> 2. Is there really nothing to replace the deprecated PRE_INSTALL_SCRIPT
> property?
>
> Thanks,
> David
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