[CMake] Really Basic Question

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-04-18 23:41-0000 dfeustel at mindspring.com wrote:

> I created a CMakeLists.txt file with the following:
>
>
> # set a list of items
>
> SET(items_to_buy apple orange pear beer)
>
> # loop over the items
>
> FOREACH (item $(items_to_buy))
> 	MESSAGE( "Don't forget to buy a $(item)" )
> ENDFOREACH (item $(items_to_buy))
> MESSAGE( $(items_to_buy) )
>
> when I run either ccmake . or cmake, ther is no expansion
> of $(items_to_buy). Do I need something else in the file?

Yes, variable expansion requires curly braces and not parentheses:

$(items_to_buy) ==> ${items_to_buy}

Alan

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