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Issue created Sep 15, 2021 by David Gobbi@dgobbiDeveloper

H5detect vs H5Tinit.c dependency problem

System: macOS 10.15, cmake 3.13.2, GNU make 3.81, VTK master from Sept 15, 2021

Doing a "Makefile" build (-j 1) of VTK generated this error:

No rule to make target 'ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src/H5Tinit.c'

The build continued after I forced H5detect to build:

make H5detect
make

I haven't dug very deep into this, but the following code block (line 1084 in ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src/CMakeLists.txt) seems to be implicated:

     add_custom_command (TARGET H5detect POST_BUILD
        COMMAND    ${CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR} $<TARGET_FILE:H5detect>
        ARGS       H5Tinit.c
        BYPRODUCTS H5Tinit.c gen_SRCS.stamp1
        COMMAND    ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
        ARGS       -E touch gen_SRCS.stamp1
        DEPENDS H5detect
        WORKING_DIRECTORY ${HDF5_GENERATED_SOURCE_DIR}
        COMMENT    "Create H5Tinit.c"
    )

Perhaps the problem is the use of "BYPRODUCTS" with no "OUTPUT" with the Makefile generator?

There seem to be similar dependency issues with H5lib_settings.c and H5make_libsettings. In that case, the workaround was this:

make H5make_libsettings
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