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Generates a rule to copy each source file from source directory
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to destination directory.


Typical use -
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<pre>
SET(SRC_FILES head1.h head2.h head3.h)
COPY_IF_DIFFERENT( /from_dir /to_dir ${SRC_FILES} IncludeTargets "Includes")
ADD_TARGET(CopyIncludes ALL DEPENDS ${IncludeTargets})
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will generate rules that look
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<pre>
CopyIncludes: $(CopyIncludes_DEPEND_LIBS) \
  Include\head1.h \
  Include\head2.h \
  Include\head3.h
 
Include\head1.h:
@echo Building Copying head1.h /to_dir head1.h...
cmake.exe -E copy_if_different /from_dir/head1.h  /to_dir/head1.h
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<pre>
MACRO(COPY_IF_DIFFERENT FROM_DIR TO_DIR FILES TARGETS TAGS)
# Macro to implement copy_if_different for a list of files
# Arguments -
#  FROM_DIR - this is the source directory
#  TO_DIR  - this is the destination directory
#  FILES    - names of the files to copy
#              TODO: add globing.
#  TARGETS  - List of targets
#  TAGS    - Since only the file name is used
#              to generate rules, pre-pend a user
#              supplied tag to prevent duplicate rule errors.
SET(AddTargets "")
FOREACH(SRC ${FILES})
    GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(SRCFILE ${SRC} NAME)
    # Command to copy the files to ${STEP1}/src, if changed.
    SET(TARGET  "${TAGS}/${SRCFILE}")
    IF("${FROM_DIR}" STREQUAL "")
        SET(FROM ${SRC})
    ELSE("${FROM_DIR}" STREQUAL "")
        SET(FROM ${FROM_DIR}/${SRC})
    ENDIF("${FROM_DIR}" STREQUAL "")
    IF("${TO_DIR}" STREQUAL "")
        SET(TO ${SRCFILE})
    ELSE("${TO_DIR}" STREQUAL "")
        SET(TO  ${TO_DIR}/${SRCFILE})
    ENDIF("${TO_DIR}" STREQUAL "")
    ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
        OUTPUT  ${TARGET}
        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
        ARGS    -E copy_if_different ${FROM} ${TO}
        COMMENT "Copying ${SRCFILE} ${TO_DIR}"
        )
    SET(AddTargets ${AddTargets} ${TARGET})
ENDFOREACH(SRC ${FILES})
SET(${TARGETS} ${AddTargets})
ENDMACRO(COPY_IF_DIFFERENT FROM_DIR TO_DIR FILES TARGETS TAGS)
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