[CMake] CMake CVS SET gratuitous semicolon
Brandon J. Van Every
bvanevery at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 15:02:53 EST 2006
William A. Hoffman wrote:
> That is expected behavior. SET(FOO a b c) is the same as SET(FOO a;b;c), it
> sets FOO to a list of elements. SET(FOO "a b c") sets FOO to a single element.
> That being said, I am not exactly sure why we could not expand cmake lists before
> we write variables into makefiles. Is there a case where ; would be expected in a
> variable, what would this break?
>
PATHs on Windows are separated by semicolons.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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