[CMake] CMake: Problem with reading files with semicolons

[Zachary Pincus]

This is something that would make my life a lot easier too.

Here's my use-case: I need to configure a file with a variable number  
of nearly-identical blocks of text. I would love to read in the  
"master text" with FILE(READ...), and then modify that text with  
STRING(CONFIGURE...) several times with different variables. I would  
then concatenate these strings together and write then out with a  
CONFIGURE_FILE or FILE(WRITE...) step.

Right now, I've got no good way to put multiple blocks of text in the  
same file, without having that text actually hard-coded in a CMake  
file, which is messy.

Zach


On Jan 26, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Brad King wrote:

> wedekind wrote:
>  you are generally right. But we have different build-processes for  
> the same
>> source-code at work. That means I cannot introduce this variable  
>> in the
>> source code for everyone, this would break the non-cmake builds.  
>> Using CMake
>> to insert this variable and run CONFIGURE_FILE afterwards results  
>> in missing
>> semicolons too.
>> I have used a perl script now which runs as a PRE_BUILD-script and  
>> modifies
>> the source code. It's a workaround that is pretty for me, but it  
>> would be
>> nice if this IMHO faulty behaviour of CMake could be fixed.
>
> Please put a bug report here:
>
> http://www.cmake.org
>
> Thanks,
> -Brad
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