[CMake] Clarification for quoting of parameters for "add_executable()"

[Bill Hoffman]

On 1/12/2011 4:21 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>> I hope that the involved technical details can be better resolved in a
>> wider audience.
>
> Now I would like to show a small script which demonstrates a specific
> detail in the wording of an error message that I did not expect in this
> way.
>
> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)
> project(Bug11677)
> set(MY_SOURCES "Alpha.cxx" "${Bug11677_SOURCE_DIR}/Zulu.cxx")
> message(STATUS "=>${MY_SOURCES}<=")
> add_executable(Bug11677 "${MY_SOURCES}")
>
>
> Log result example for the build file generation try:
>
> =>Alpha.cxx;/home/elfring/Projekte/CMake/Test/11677/source/Zulu.cxx<=
> Configuring done
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:5 (add_executable):
> Cannot find source file "Zulu.cxx". Tried extensions .c .C .c++ .cc .cpp
> .cxx .m .M .mm .h .hh .h++ .hm .hpp .hxx .in .txx
>
>
> elfring at Sonne:~/Projekte/CMake/Test/11677/source> ls -l
> insgesamt 12
> -rw-r--r-- 1 elfring users 130 10. Jan 22:37 Alpha.cxx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 elfring users 198 12. Jan 21:46 CMakeLists.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 elfring users 130 10. Jan 22:37 Zulu.cxx
>
>
> How do you think about this situation?
>

What would you like it to print?


-Bill