D'oh! Sorry I dropped this ball, thanks again, this is the most helpful
patch ever.
Brad King <brad.k...@kitware.com> writes:
> On 10/26/2012 11:22 AM, Leif Walsh wrote:
>> On Oct 26, 2012, at 11:13, Brad King <brad.k...@kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/26/2012 10:39 AM, Leif Walsh wrote:
>>>> Sure thing. Can you let me know where to find an example test? I'll
>>>> pattern match one over the weekend.
>>>
>>> Most CMake tests just verify that binaries build correctly.
>>> The "Tests/BuildDepends" test is the only one that actually
>>> tests rebuild behavior. It has custom commands to build a
>>> sub-project in its Project subdirectory multiple times while
>>> making modifications in between.
>>>
>>> You'll have to modify the inner test project to add a shared
>>> library and an executable that links to it. Set the new
>>> property on the executable only. After the first build,
>>> verify that the executable's time is newer than the library
>>> time. Between builds, modify a the shared library source
>>> (which of course will have to be in the build tree to avoid
>>> modifying CMake's source tree). After the second build
>>> verify that the library is newer than the executable.
>>>
>>> Checking the file times is probably most easily done as a
>>> custom target on the inner project that depends on the
>>> executable. Its COMMAND should run a cmake script and
>>> pass -Dexe=$<TARGET_FILE:exe> -Dlib=$<TARGET_FILE:lib> to
>>> it. The script can compare the ${lib} and ${exe} file
>>> times with if(... FILE_IS_NEWER ...).
>>
>> Sounds good, I'll send a patch soon.
>
> I finally had time to add this test myself:
>
> http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=306796e8
>
> -Brad
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Cheers,
Leif
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