ENH: Add check for infinite loops. Make sure that files written using WRITE_FILE and FILE WRITE are not used as input files. Fixes Bug #678 - WRITE_FILE and FILE(WRITE...) lead to infinite loops

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Andy Cedilnik
2004-04-18 14:41:46 -04:00
parent af61b68583
commit 55a71ba572
9 changed files with 64 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -67,7 +67,13 @@ public:
" WRITE_FILE(filename \"message to write\"... [APPEND])\n"
"The first argument is the file name, the rest of the arguments are "
"messages to write. If the argument APPEND is specified, then "
"the message will be appended.";
"the message will be appended.\n"
"NOTE 1: FILE WRITE and FILE APPEND do exactly the same as this one "
"but add some more functionality.\n"
"NOTE 2: When using WRITE_FILE the produced file cannot be used as an "
"input to CMake (CONFIGURE_FILE, source file ...) because it will "
"lead to infinite loop. Use CONFIGURE_FILE if you want to generate "
"input files to CMake.";
}
cmTypeMacro(cmWriteFileCommand, cmCommand);