[CMake] @MY_VAR@ are replaced by empty string !

[Bill Hoffman]

Martin Lütken wrote:
> SHORT:
> It's seems impossible to contruct a string containing something like this:
> "@MY_VAR@". The whole thing gets replaced by an empty string regardless 
> whether
> the MY_VAR variable is set or not. It is possible to create a string 
> like "@ MY_VAR@",
> but that is not quite the same.
> 
> 
> ACTUAL PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
> I am trying to create cmake files for Gtk+ and asssociated libs among 
> those Pango!
> 
> In order to run the glib-mkenums perl script from CMake I need to be 
> able to contruct
> a custom command with strings containing the above "@MY_VAR@" construct 
> which the script
> uses in a similar fashion as CMake does in it's CONFIGURE_FILE command.
> 
> Any suggestions? Or do I need to file a bug-report ?
> 

Can you use COPY_ONLY?  Or do you need to configure some variables in 
the file, just not all of them?

-Bill