On 06/10/2010 08:19 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
add_depend is used to express depends that the build system can not figure out. For most cases, it is not needed. add_library(a ...) target_link_library(a b), a now depends on library b. It is when you use custom commands, or have generated source files that are not known at configure time that you would need to use add_depend.
Exactly. And we have a lot of these "custom" targets. A build system tailored to that can make "add_depend" or similar unnecessary as it *can* figure that out, in the same way as CMake can figure it out for C libraries, because it knows how to build them. Our plan is that all target types and the ways they are built are known to the build system and declaring one of these targets automatically takes care of the dependencies.
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