add_custom_command: check if a relative path should be an in-source path

This still is broken for dependencies on generated paths where they get
generated to the source directory rather than the build directory
however, but there's no way to determine that is the case.

Fixes: #20194

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmCustomCommandGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmCustomCommandGenerator.cxx
index a595007..34f815f 100644
--- a/Source/cmCustomCommandGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmCustomCommandGenerator.cxx
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 
 #include <cmext/algorithm>
 
-#include "cmAlgorithms.h"
 #include "cmCustomCommand.h"
 #include "cmCustomCommandLines.h"
 #include "cmGeneratorExpression.h"
@@ -30,9 +29,6 @@ void AppendPaths(const std::vector<std::string>& inputs,
       cmExpandedList(cge->Evaluate(lg, config));
     for (std::string& it : result) {
       cmSystemTools::ConvertToUnixSlashes(it);
-      if (cmContains(it, '/') && !cmSystemTools::FileIsFullPath(it)) {
-        it = cmStrCat(lg->GetMakefile()->GetCurrentBinaryDirectory(), '/', it);
-      }
       if (cmSystemTools::FileIsFullPath(it)) {
         it = cmSystemTools::CollapseFullPath(
           it, lg->GetMakefile()->GetHomeOutputDirectory());
diff --git a/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx
index f9d8e55..6b282ab 100644
--- a/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx
@@ -2004,6 +2004,13 @@ bool cmLocalGenerator::GetRealDependency(const std::string& inName,
   // Treat the name as relative to the source directory in which it
   // was given.
   dep = cmStrCat(this->GetCurrentSourceDirectory(), '/', inName);
+
+  // If the in-source path does not exist, assume it instead lives in the
+  // binary directory.
+  if (!cmSystemTools::FileExists(dep)) {
+    dep = cmStrCat(this->GetCurrentBinaryDirectory(), '/', inName);
+  }
+
   return true;
 }