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authorStephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>2014-03-07 16:20:10 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-03-20 13:21:56 (GMT)
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add_custom_command: Evaluate generator expressions in DEPENDS
Rely on evaluation in cmCustomCommandGenerator for the generators. When tracing target dependencies, depend on the union of dependencies for all configurations.
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-rw-r--r--Help/command/add_custom_command.rst4
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diff --git a/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst b/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst
index b0c5446..028ca5a 100644
--- a/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst
+++ b/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst
@@ -156,3 +156,7 @@ target is built before any target using this custom command.
Additionally, if the target is an executable or library a file-level
dependency is created to cause the custom command to re-run whenever
the target is recompiled.
+
+Arguments to ``DEPENDS`` may use "generator expressions" with the syntax
+``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` manual for
+available expressions.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/add_custom_command-DEPENDS-genex.rst b/Help/release/dev/add_custom_command-DEPENDS-genex.rst
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index 0000000..1e528e6
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+++ b/Help/release/dev/add_custom_command-DEPENDS-genex.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+add_custom_command-DEPENDS-genex
+--------------------------------
+
+* The :command:`add_custom_command` command learned to interpret
+ :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` in arguments to ``DEPENDS``.