Copy file from source directory to binary directory using CMake

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You may consider using configure_file with the COPYONLY option:

configure_file(<input> <output> COPYONLY)

Unlike file(COPY ...) it creates a file-level dependency between input and output, that is:

If the input file is modified the build system will re-run CMake to re-configure the file and generate the build system again.

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