[CMake] multi-line definitions

[Bill Hoffman]

Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Thursday 18 September 2008 15:18:46 schrieb Bill Hoffman:
>> cyril_wobow wrote:
>>> Have you tried the following
>>> SET (CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE "-mcpu=arm7tdmi" "-std=gnu99"
>>> "-fgnu89-inline" ... "-DNDEBUG")
>>>
>>> Cyril
>> That won't work.  It will create a list of items and it needs to be a
>> big string.
> 
> Exactly why is it not possible to give a cmake list of options to property 
> like COMPILE_FLAGS and LINK_FLAGS?
> CMake kindof should know that those flags cannot be given as e.g. "-Wall;-W". 
> Or is there any known case where this would make sense?
> 
>

Just an oversight.  Brad has something in CVS CMake that will allow 
this. But, for all released versions of CMake, this is how it is.

-Bill