[cmake-developers] CMake string question

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am 2018-11-09 14:55, schrieb Joachim Wuttke:
>>> if("${srcdir}" STREQUAL "${bindir}")
>> 
>> if(srcdir STREQUAL bindir)
> 
> looks more idiomatic, thank you Eike -
> 
> But can we be sure that srcdir contains no blank?
> Or does STREQUAL work even for argument strings
> that contain blanks?

If you pass in only the variable names CMake will do the expansion only 
internally, so this is save. It just works (tm).

Eike
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