[cmake-developers] Issues with generator expressions and lists

[Brad King]

On 02/28/2013 07:39 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>  set(COMMARGS $<1:one> "$<1:two;three>" $<1:four;five>)
...
>  echo one two three four five

This is already the case for any argument lists.  CMake flattens lists.

> Maybe the solution is to leave raw list literals disallowed in COMMANDs, and 
> to use a property like I did in the unit test with the 
> 
>  $<TARGET_PROPERTY:consumer,INCLUDES_PROPERTY_HACK>

That can be used as a workaround for now.  New syntax support can be
added later as I said in my other response a few minutes ago.

-Brad