Launch thisREST.cmake macro each time we call make install

RESTFramework
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I realised that I need to call cmake ../ in order to update the contents of thisREST.sh with the commit where I am in my local copy.

So, if I have already compiled REST, I switch to another commit, and run make install the value of the commit will not be updated.

And when I use : rest-config --commit I do not get the right commit version. It is this easy to change that in CMakeLists.txt?

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thisREST.cmake is actually launched at install time, when we do “make install”.

The problem is that the Git info is gathered by CollectGitInfo.cmake that is called only at configure time.

I have created the following issue to track this problem

3

This leads to another bug that. when the directory is not a git repository, the install will fail. I think the solution should be to add a custom target during the build stage

4

I have added this feature. Now build command will trigger a rerun of cmake program. See Sign in · GitLab

It’s still not good. All the files needs to be re-compiled.