[cmake-developers] CMake 2.8.6-rc1 ready for testing!

[Rolf Eike Beer]

> Thought this came out weeks ago... and I would miss a chance to comment.
>
> Watcom support is almost working, the new test version code is...
>
>   EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ${CMAKE_TEST_COMPILER}
>   	-q -pc \"${testWatcomVersionFile}\"
>     OUTPUT_VARIABLE CMAKE_COMPILER_OUTPUT
>     RESULT_VARIABLE CMAKE_COMPILER_RETURN
>     )
>
> which looks OK. But if I change it to
>   EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND echo ${CMAKE_TEST_COMPILER}
>   	-q -pc \"${testWatcomVersionFile}\"
>     OUTPUT_VARIABLE CMAKE_COMPILER_OUTPUT
>     RESULT_VARIABLE CMAKE_COMPILER_RETURN
>     )
>
>
> then the command looks like
>
> e:/tools/watcom/binnt/wcl386.exe -q -pc
> \e:\tools\unix\cmake\share\cmake-2.8\Modules\CMakeTestWatcomVersion.c"
>
>
> (as is set in CMAKE_COMPILER_OUTPUT) but anyhow...
>
> I don't know where the extra \ before the e:\ is coming from.

I think I know where it is from, but I have no idea why:

>   	-q -pc \"${testWatcomVersionFile}\"
               ^                          ^

These are the things that surround your variable value. Something got
screwed up here with the quotes as it seems.

Eike