[Bro-Dev] Bifcl and CMake

[Gregor Maier]

On 12/9/10 17:50 , Jonathan Siwek wrote:
>> Can you tell CMake to remove the generated output files (if they
>> exist) when an add_custom_command failed?
> 
> I'm not sure there's a special CMake way to do it, but you can try appending " || (rm -f ${bifOutputs} && exit 1)" to the ARGS parameter of the add_custom_command.
> 
> Then when `bifcl` exists with non-zero exit status, the `rm` would get invoked and then the `exit 1` would cause the CMake build to abort.

Cool thanks. That worked.

However, I'm just wondering which shell CMake / make use and whether
that syntax will always work ...

> Want to try it out and put it on the fastpath if it works for you?

I don't think it's urgent (the autoconf based build seems to have the
same issue). I have it in my current branch with some other tweaks to
bifcl. I think it's fine if they all get merged together.

cu
Gregor
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