[cmake-developers] [PATCH] remove "x" placeholder from STREQUAL operands
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Apr 17 17:17:21 EDT 2014
On 2014-04-13 03:37, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Sadly the expression is even expanded when it is quoted as long as it is a
> valid variable name. So what you could do is: replace the "x" by a simple
> space and then quote the match string, because " Linux" is no valid variable
> name.
set(" Linux" Windows) # succeeds
Alas, the only character that may not appear in a variable name is '\0'.
(And even that is more due to use of raw char* with no length than
intent, I bet.)
I keep hoping that one of these days CMake would define valid
identifiers as '[[:letter:]_][[:alnum:]_-]*'...
--
Matthew
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