[CMake] Is there analog of source command from bash ?

[Magnus Therning]

Denis Kotov <redradist at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have tried to find solution to the following problem: There is the
> project with environment variable described in *setenv.sh* file
> Old build process looks like:
> source *setenv.sh*
> make release
>
> But I want to accomplish this by *CMake*. But I have realized that
> *CMake* does not have analog of source command that's why the
> following command does not work:
> execute_process(COMMAND bash -c "source ../setenv")
>
> Because *CMake* creates a child process.
> How can I import variables that was set in some sh file ?

What I usually do is rewrite the sh file into a proper CMake package and
then use find_package() to pull it in. Another option is of course to
just include() it.

/M

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