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aren't effective.  I don't think I fully understood the explanations of
why, though.

If it's ok to specify this variable on the cmake command line ( cmake
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=3DDebug ) and via ccmake, why isn't it ok to specify =
it
as a default by a SET command, like the one shown above?

In my particular case, the users just about always want Debug builds, so
that seems like a good default value for CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.

- Christian