CMake/Source/cmWriteFileCommand.h

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/*=========================================================================
Program: CMake - Cross-Platform Makefile Generator
Module: $RCSfile$
Language: C++
Date: $Date$
Version: $Revision$
Copyright (c) 2002 Kitware, Inc., Insight Consortium. All rights reserved.
See Copyright.txt or http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Copyright.html for details.
This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the above copyright notices for more information.
=========================================================================*/
#ifndef cmWriteFileCommand_h
#define cmWriteFileCommand_h
#include "cmCommand.h"
/** \class cmWriteFileCommand
* \brief Writes a message to a file
*
*/
class cmWriteFileCommand : public cmCommand
{
public:
/**
* This is a virtual constructor for the command.
*/
virtual cmCommand* Clone()
{
return new cmWriteFileCommand;
}
/**
* This is called when the command is first encountered in
* the CMakeLists.txt file.
*/
virtual bool InitialPass(std::vector<std::string> const& args,
cmExecutionStatus &status);
/**
* This determines if the command is invoked when in script mode.
*/
virtual bool IsScriptable() { return true; }
/**
* The name of the command as specified in CMakeList.txt.
*/
virtual const char* GetName() { return "write_file";}
/**
* Succinct documentation.
*/
virtual const char* GetTerseDocumentation()
{
return "Deprecated. Use the file(WRITE ) command instead.";
}
/**
* More documentation.
*/
virtual const char* GetFullDocumentation()
{
return
" 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.\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 an infinite loop. Use configure_file if you want to generate "
"input files to CMake.";
}
/** This command is kept for compatibility with older CMake versions. */
virtual bool IsDiscouraged()
{
return true;
}
cmTypeMacro(cmWriteFileCommand, cmCommand);
};
#endif