Re: [cmake-developers] why does the order of the options in file(GENERATE) matter?

2014-12-05 Thread Erik Sjölund
I see, thanks. cheers, Erik Sjölund On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Brad King wrote: > On 12/05/2014 04:28 AM, Erik Sjölund wrote: >> The CMake documentation doesn't mention that the order matters: >> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/command/file.html#command:file >> >> Why does the order of

Re: [cmake-developers] why does the order of the options in file(GENERATE) matter?

2014-12-05 Thread Brad King
On 12/05/2014 04:28 AM, Erik Sjölund wrote: > The CMake documentation doesn't mention that the order matters: > http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/command/file.html#command:file > > Why does the order of the options in file(GENERATE) matter? It was always implemented that way: http://www.cma

[cmake-developers] why does the order of the options in file(GENERATE) matter?

2014-12-05 Thread Erik Sjölund
I tried this out: file(GENERATE INPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/script.sh OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/script.sh) but CMake failed with this error message: "file Incorrect arguments to GENERATE subcommand." If I reverse the order of the options INPUT and OUTPUT it works just fine. file(