ENH: Define target-specific support directories

This creates method cmTarget::GetSupportDirectory to compute a
target-specific support directory in the build tree.  It uses the
"CMakeFiles/<name>.dir" convention already used by the Makefile
generators.  The method will be useful for any code that needs to
generate per-target information into the build tree for use by CMake
tools that do not run at generate time.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmTarget.cxx b/Source/cmTarget.cxx
index ae250d4..18a7c50 100644
--- a/Source/cmTarget.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmTarget.cxx
@@ -866,6 +866,17 @@ cmListFileBacktrace const& cmTarget::GetBacktrace() const
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+std::string cmTarget::GetSupportDirectory() const
+{
+  std::string dir = this->Makefile->GetCurrentOutputDirectory();
+  dir += cmake::GetCMakeFilesDirectory();
+  dir += "/";
+  dir += this->Name;
+  dir += ".dir";
+  return dir;
+}
+
+//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 bool cmTarget::IsExecutableWithExports()
 {
   return (this->GetType() == cmTarget::EXECUTABLE &&
diff --git a/Source/cmTarget.h b/Source/cmTarget.h
index dce4feb..23ef9dc 100644
--- a/Source/cmTarget.h
+++ b/Source/cmTarget.h
@@ -415,6 +415,9 @@ public:
   /** Get a backtrace from the creation of the target.  */
   cmListFileBacktrace const& GetBacktrace() const;
 
+  /** Get a build-tree directory in which to place target support files.  */
+  std::string GetSupportDirectory() const;
+
 private:
   /**
    * A list of direct dependencies. Use in conjunction with DependencyMap.