[cmake-developers] conditionals in generator expressions
Stephen Kelly
steveire at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 06:35:39 EDT 2012
Stephen Kelly wrote:
>
> The STREQUAL expression also makes the CONFIG expression redundant and
> equivalent to $<STREQUAL:$<CONFIGURATION>,...>. I can see reason to keep
> CONFIG anyway because it is more convenient and is expected to be commonly
> used I think.
Actually, a good reason to keep the CONFIG expression is to make it handle
CONFIGURATION_MAPs.
For example, $<CONFIG:RELEASE> should be "1" if CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is Coverage
and thisTarget has MAP_IMPORTED_CONFIG_COVERAGE "RELEASE".
That came to mind with this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/5919/focus=5925
Thanks,
Steve.
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