[cmake-developers] [CMake 0014051]: -E capabilities frustratingly limited

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=14051 
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Reported By:                Dave Abrahams
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   14051
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2013-03-29 15:28 EDT
Last Modified:              2013-03-29 15:28 EDT
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Summary:                    -E capabilities frustratingly limited
Description: 
I find myself writing tiny scripts to do something that only "script mode” is
capable of.  For example,

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
configure_file(${SOURCE_DIR}/LitReTemplate.cmake ${OUTPUT} @ONLY)

And then, to invoke this as a build action, I need to figure out how to properly
quote ${SOURCE_DIR} et all as -D arguments on the cake command line.
 
I really want to be able to write

  cmake -E script "configure_file(${SOURCE_DIR}/LitReTemplate.cmake ${OUTPUT}
@ONLY)”

It would be so much more direct.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2013-03-29 15:28 Dave Abrahams  New Issue                                    
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