2016-10-14 19:34 GMT+02:00 Aaron Boxer <boxe...@gmail.com>: > I have the following lines in my cmake file > > > foreach(f ${MyFiles}) > add_custom_command(TARGET ${OPENJPEG_PLUGIN_NAME} PRE_BUILD > COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E > copy ${f} $<TARGET_FILE_DIR:${MY_FOLDER}>) > endforeach() > > in order to copy MyFiles to MyFolder. > > > If these files already exist, I would like copy to overwrite the old file. > Is there a flag to pass to copy to force this to overwrite? >
I don't think so since the "-E copy" already has the behaviour you describe. i.e. it will overwrite the file in any case. Th only variant you have is the copy_if_different which may avoid changing the timestamp of a file which didn't change. -- Eric
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