[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015575]: Ambiguous documentation for how to define a (cached) variable in cmake from command line

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15575 
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Reported By:                Claudio Caraffi
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15575
Category:                   Documentation
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-05-20 04:56 EDT
Last Modified:              2015-05-20 04:56 EDT
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Summary:                    Ambiguous documentation for how to define a (cached)
variable in cmake from command line
Description: 
As discussed in
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30319646/ambiguous-documentation-for-how-to-define-a-cached-variable-in-cmake-from-comm:

In the command line synopsis there's

-D<var>=<value>

While in the option description we read:

-D <var>:<type>=<value>

The two entries differ by a space between -D and the variable definition, and by
the presence/absence of :<type>.

Does the space make any difference? What is the difference between specifying or
not the type? Is it cached in any case? Is it shown in the gui afterwards?
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2015-05-20 04:56 Claudio CaraffiNew Issue                                    
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