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0014091

CMake

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2013-04-15 17:20

2013-11-04 09:33

Reporter

Dave Abrahams

Assigned To

Brad King

Priority

normal

Severity

major

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

fixed

Platform

Mac

OS X

OS Version

10.8

Product Version

CMake 2.8.10.2

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Fixed in Version

Summary

0014091: get_filename_component PATH docs and parameter naming kinda suck

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<rant on>
       get_filename_component
              Get a specific component of a full filename.

                get_filename_component(<VAR> FileName
                                       PATH|ABSOLUTE|NAME|EXT|NAME_WE|REALPATH
                                       [CACHE])

              Set <VAR> to be the path (PATH), file name (NAME), file extension
              (EXT), file name without extension (NAME_WE) of FileName, the full
              path (ABSOLUTE), or the full path with all symlinks resolved (REAL-
              PATH). Note that the path is converted to Unix slashes format and

What PATH actually does is not to get the "path of FIlename", but the directory of Filename. The fact that ABSOLUTE actually does get the path of filename should make this screamingly obvious. It's not like the results of PATH are some relative version of what ABSOLUTE yields. Nobody should have to troll stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7035734/cmake-parent-directory [^]) for answers like this one. Recommended fix: deprecate PATH and replace it with DIRECTORY
</rant off>

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