Re: [CMake] How do you test partial rebuilds?

The solution we arrived at was to write a https://behat.org/ backend to perform automated tests of our incremental builds. The Behat backend copies the project's source tree to a temporary folder, then runs a scripted test suite on it, which looks like this: Feature: In

Re: [CMake] CMake is Converting lists to strings

You are wrongly using the STRING(REPLACE …) command. The right way to use it to avoid list conversion is to expand the list inside  quotes (to preserve list items separators): STRING (REPLACE "../" "" SIMPLE_LIST "${SIMPLE_LIST}") Without the quotes, all list elements are concatenated in the res

Re: [CMake] CMake is Converting lists to strings

I know... just need to rebuild a new list... something like set( _ALL_INCLUDES ) foreach( INC ${ALL_INCLUDES}) string(REPLACE "../" "" INC ${INC}) LIST( APPEND _ALL_INCLUDES ${INC} ) endforeach( INC ) set( ALL_INCLUDES ${_ALL_INCLUDES}) On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 3:10 AM J Decker wrote

[CMake] CMake is Converting lists to strings

I'm collecting sources and includes into a parent scope variable, and then attempting to use that variable to reference the right sources. Sources get added to the list as ../(theirpath)/(source) so in the parent level I can simply replace "../" with "" and then they are relative in the right place