I already solved it for myself, just writing in case anyone else has the same problem:
Post compile steps are "broken" when there are pre-compile steps at the same time. The reason is that the project saver and the project loader don't quite speak the same language, so the pre-compile steps get loaded while the post-compile steps don't.
This is what goes into the project file:
<ExtraCommands>
<Add before="this is done before compile"/>
</ExtraCommands>
<ExtraCommands>
<Add after="this being done after"/>
</ExtraCommands>
and this is what the project loader expects:
<ExtraCommands>
<Add before="this is done before compile"/>
<Add after="this being done after"/>
</ExtraCommands>
A functional workaround (if you are reluctant to rebuild c::b) is this:
sed -e 'N;s/\n//;N;s/\n//;s%</ExtraCommands>\s*<ExtraCommands>%%g' project.cbp
Quite nasty, but put in a batch file, it is not that painful really, and it fixes things :)
The "guilty" function in projectloader.cpp (for those who *want* to recompile c::b) is ProjectLoader::DoExtraCommands.
TiXmlElement* node = parentNode->FirstChildElement("ExtraCommands");
if (!node)
return; // no options
TiXmlElement* child = node->FirstChildElement("Add");
while (child)
{
...
}
should be something like
if( !(TiXmlElement* node = parentNode->FirstChildElement("ExtraCommands")) )
return;
do
{
TiXmlElement* child = node->FirstChildElement("Add");
while (child)
{
...
}
}while ( ( TiXmlElement* node = node->NextSiblingElement("ExtraCommands") ) )
One could argue, too, that the project is correctly read in, as several Adds inside one ExtraCommands seems more logical. In that case the save function would have to be changed.