add_custom_command: Evaluate generator expressions in DEPENDS

Rely on evaluation in cmCustomCommandGenerator for the generators.

When tracing target dependencies, depend on the union of dependencies
for all configurations.

Help/command/add_custom_command.rst

@@ -156,3 +156,7 @@ target is built before any target using this custom command.
 Additionally, if the target is an executable or library a file-level
 dependency is created to cause the custom command to re-run whenever
 the target is recompiled.
+
+Arguments to ``DEPENDS`` may use "generator expressions" with the syntax
+``$<...>``.  See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` manual for
+available expressions.

Help/release/dev/add_custom_command-DEPENDS-genex.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+add_custom_command-DEPENDS-genex
+--------------------------------
+
+* The :command:`add_custom_command` command learned to interpret
+  :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` in arguments to ``DEPENDS``.

Source/cmCustomCommandGenerator.cxx

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ cmCustomCommandGenerator::cmCustomCommandGenerator(
   cmCustomCommand const& cc, const std::string& config, cmMakefile* mf):
   CC(cc), Config(config), Makefile(mf), LG(mf->GetLocalGenerator()),
   OldStyle(cc.GetEscapeOldStyle()), MakeVars(cc.GetEscapeAllowMakeVars()),
-  GE(new cmGeneratorExpression(cc.GetBacktrace()))
+  GE(new cmGeneratorExpression(cc.GetBacktrace())), DependsDone(false)
 {
 }
 
@@ -93,5 +93,19 @@ std::vector<std::string> const& cmCustomCommandGenerator::GetOutputs() const
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 std::vector<std::string> const& cmCustomCommandGenerator::GetDepends() const
 {
-  return this->CC.GetDepends();
+  if (!this->DependsDone)
+    {
+    this->DependsDone = true;
+    std::vector<std::string> depends = this->CC.GetDepends();
+    for(std::vector<std::string>::const_iterator
+          i = depends.begin();
+        i != depends.end(); ++i)
+      {
+      cmsys::auto_ptr<cmCompiledGeneratorExpression> cge
+                                              = this->GE->Parse(*i);
+      cmSystemTools::ExpandListArgument(
+                  cge->Evaluate(this->Makefile, this->Config), this->Depends);
+      }
+    }
+  return this->Depends;
 }

Source/cmCustomCommandGenerator.h

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ class cmCustomCommandGenerator
   bool OldStyle;
   bool MakeVars;
   cmGeneratorExpression* GE;
+  mutable bool DependsDone;
+  mutable std::vector<std::string> Depends;
 public:
   cmCustomCommandGenerator(cmCustomCommand const& cc,
                            const std::string& config,

Source/cmGeneratorTarget.cxx

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include "cmGeneratorExpression.h"
 #include "cmGeneratorExpressionDAGChecker.h"
 #include "cmComputeLinkInformation.h"
+#include "cmCustomCommandGenerator.h"
 
 #include <queue>
 
@@ -610,6 +611,9 @@ private:
   bool IsUtility(std::string const& dep);
   void CheckCustomCommand(cmCustomCommand const& cc);
   void CheckCustomCommands(const std::vector<cmCustomCommand>& commands);
+  void FollowCommandDepends(cmCustomCommand const& cc,
+                            const std::string& config,
+                            std::set<std::string>& emitted);
 };
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -826,16 +830,41 @@ cmTargetTraceDependencies
     }
 
   // Queue the custom command dependencies.
-  std::vector<std::string> const& depends = cc.GetDepends();
+  std::vector<std::string> configs;
+  std::set<std::string> emitted;
+  this->Makefile->GetConfigurations(configs);
+  if (configs.empty())
+    {
+    configs.push_back("");
+    }
+  for(std::vector<std::string>::const_iterator ci = configs.begin();
+      ci != configs.end(); ++ci)
+    {
+    this->FollowCommandDepends(cc, *ci, emitted);
+    }
+}
+
+//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+void cmTargetTraceDependencies::FollowCommandDepends(cmCustomCommand const& cc,
+                                              const std::string& config,
+                                              std::set<std::string>& emitted)
+{
+  cmCustomCommandGenerator ccg(cc, config, this->Makefile);
+
+  const std::vector<std::string>& depends = ccg.GetDepends();
+
   for(std::vector<std::string>::const_iterator di = depends.begin();
       di != depends.end(); ++di)
     {
     std::string const& dep = *di;
-    if(!this->IsUtility(dep))
+    if(emitted.insert(dep).second)
       {
-      // The dependency does not name a target and may be a file we
+      if(!this->IsUtility(dep))
-      // know how to generate.  Queue it.
+        {
-      this->FollowName(dep);
+        // The dependency does not name a target and may be a file we
+        // know how to generate.  Queue it.
+        this->FollowName(dep);
+        }
       }
     }
 }

Tests/CustomCommand/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ add_executable(CustomCommand
 # here to test adding the generation rule after referencing the
 # generated source in a target.
 add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/generated.c
-  DEPENDS generator
+  DEPENDS $<1:generator> $<0:does_not_exist>
   COMMAND generator
   ARGS ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/generated.c
   )
@@ -221,8 +221,11 @@ add_subdirectory(GeneratorInExtraDir)
 
 add_executable(tcat tcat.cxx)
 
+# Test that list expansion from a generator expression works.
+set_property(TARGET tcat PROPERTY DEPSLIST tcat gen_redirect_in.c)
+
 add_custom_command(OUTPUT gen_redirect.c
-  DEPENDS tcat gen_redirect_in.c
+  DEPENDS $<TARGET_PROPERTY:tcat,DEPSLIST>
   COMMAND tcat < ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/gen_redirect_in.c > gen_redirect.c
   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo "#endif" >> gen_redirect.c
   VERBATIM