Re: [CMake] getting a build parameter from a file

2015-06-09 Thread Dave Yost
> On 2015-06-09, at 8:05 AM, David Cole wrote: > > Why not just use configure_file because I didn’t know about it. Thanks! > to write ${metals} into the file... > configure_file only actually touches/writes-to/updates the file if the > contents are different... > > Then you can just depend on

Re: [CMake] getting a build parameter from a file

2015-06-09 Thread David Cole via CMake
Why not just use configure_file to write ${metals} into the file... configure_file only actually touches/writes-to/updates the file if the contents are different... Then you can just depend on that file and you don't need a separate timestamp file. HTH, David C. On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:05 AM,

[CMake] getting a build parameter from a file

2015-06-08 Thread Dave Yost
First, my cmake code does this: sets ${metals} from a cmake command-line argument compares the contents of ${metals} against the contents of a file to note whether the variable is being changed since the last run of cmake writes the new value to that file for next time call an add_timestamp_file