Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cmake: set up proper dependencies for generated clar headers

From: Taylor Blau <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:47:21 -0400

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 04:06:47PM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> The auto-generated headers used by clar are written at configure time
> and thus do not get regenerated automatically. Refactor the build
> recipes such that we use custom commands instead, which also has the
> benefit that we can reuse the same infrastructure as our Makefile.

OK.

> +add_custom_command(OUTPUT "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar-decls.h"
> +	COMMAND ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/unit-tests/generate-clar-decls.sh "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar-decls.h" ${clar_test_SUITES}
> +	DEPENDS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/unit-tests/generate-clar-decls.sh ${clar_test_SUITES})
> +add_custom_command(OUTPUT "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar.suite"
> +	COMMAND awk -f "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar-generate.awk" "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar-decls.h" > "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar.suite"
> +	DEPENDS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar-generate.awk" "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar-decls.h")
> +
> +add_library(unit-tests-lib ${clar_test_SUITES}
> +	"${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c"
> +	"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar-decls.h"
> +	"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar.suite"
> +)
>  target_include_directories(unit-tests-lib PUBLIC "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests")
>  add_executable(unit-tests "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/unit-tests/unit-test.c")
>  target_link_libraries(unit-tests unit-tests-lib common-main)

Ahh. The post-image is a definite improvement ;-).

Thanks,
Taylor