[CMake] Bug#553151: CMake 2.8.0 RC 4 ready for testing!

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 29 October 2009, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Alexander Neundorf
>
> <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 October 2009, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > ...
> >
> >> Done:
> >> http://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=9793
> >>
> >> Bug report include the test I used. Unfortunately find_package caches
> >> results, so one need to manually remove cmakecache.txt file before
> >> re-running this.
> >
> > You can also use cmake-gui to delete the respective variables (or do it
> > manually in CMakeCache.txt), no need to start completely from scratch.
>
> I wanted to do that in a for loop, but could not find a way to do it
> programmatically. This would greatly ease the writing of regression
> testing. Or else I am missing something to clear anything that has
> been cached by find_package.

Did you try cmake -U ?

From the help:
Options
  -C <initial-cache>          = Pre-load a script to populate the cache.
  -D <var>:<type>=<value>     = Create a cmake cache entry.
  -U <globbing_expr>          = Remove matching entries from CMake cache.

Alex