Merge topic 'help-add-custom-comman-byproducts'

00b788e85e Help:custom_command: link policy on BYPRODUCTS

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !7662
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Brad King
2022-09-19 14:22:53 +00:00
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Each byproduct file will be marked with the :prop_sf:`GENERATED`
source file property automatically.
*See policy* :policy:`CMP0058` *for the motivation behind this feature.*
Explicit specification of byproducts is supported by the
:generator:`Ninja` generator to tell the ``ninja`` build tool
how to regenerate byproducts when they are missing. It is
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@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ every custom command dependency, even on source files, needs to
be treated this way because CMake does not have enough information
to know which files are generated as byproducts of custom commands.
Introducing Byproducts
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
CMake 3.2 introduced the ``BYPRODUCTS`` option to the
:command:`add_custom_command` and :command:`add_custom_target`
commands. This option allows byproducts to be specified explicitly: