CMP0126ΒΆ

New in version 3.21.

When this policy is set to NEW, the set(CACHE) command does not remove any normal variable of the same name from the current scope. The OLD behavior removes any normal variable of the same name from the current scope in the following situations:

  • No cache variable of that name existed previously.

  • A cache variable of that name existed previously, but it had no type. This can occur when the variable was set on the command line using a form like cmake -DMYVAR=blah instead of cmake -DMYVAR:STRING=blah.

  • The FORCE or INTERNAL keywords were used when setting the cache variable.

Note that the NEW behavior has an important difference to the similar NEW behavior of policy CMP0077. The set(CACHE) command always sets the cache variable if it did not exist previously, regardless of the CMP0126 policy setting. The option() command will not set the cache variable if a non-cache variable of the same name already exists and CMP0077 is set to NEW.

This policy was introduced in CMake version 3.21. It may be set by cmake_policy() or cmake_minimum_required(). If it is not set, CMake does not warn by default, and uses OLD behavior.

See documentation of the CMAKE_POLICY_WARNING_CMP0126 variable to control the warning.

The CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0126 variable may be used to set the policy for a third-party project in a subdirectory without modifying it.

Note

The OLD behavior of a policy is deprecated by definition and may be removed in a future version of CMake.