But some existing replacements require forward slashes, we can't just "to
native path" everything blindly. I think you will have to special case the
bits which do need native paths.


On Wednesday, August 19, 2015, Kislinskiy, Stefan <
s.kislins...@dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to contribute a fix regarding directory tokens (e.g.
> <SOURCE_DIR>) in the ExternalProject module. These tokens are replaced by
> their matching target property value _EP_${dir}. However, the path
> substitutes are not converted to native path style which makes it
> impossible to use directory tokens in some Windows commands like pushd, as
> these commands are not able to handle forward slashes. I attached a tiny
> patch which simply calls file(TO_NATIVE_PATH) before replacing directory
> tokens.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Kislinskiy
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