[CMake] Re: TRY_COMPILE painful for tool testing

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>
>
> I cannot find any well-defined point of control for escaping 
> backslashes or quotes in strings and macros.  Different levels of 
> CMake are consuming them differently.  This is preventing COMMAND from 
> being usable in any kind of portable manner.  


I have determined that COMMAND consumes twice as many backslashes as an 
IF(...) statement.  This makes it impossible to pass around Windows 
native paths in strings; they are not reusable.  I've filed this as bug 
#3786.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every

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