Bill Hoffman wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
set(!BANG wacky CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
set("var with space" wacky CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
message(STATUS "This is !BANG: ${!BANG}")
message(STATUS "This is var with space: ${var with space}")

The above snippet (as expected) causes a CMake error. What's interesting is that the error is in the message, not the set. More so, the variables do indeed end up in the cache!

The utility of a variable that can't be referenced seems... dubious. Should CMake prevent this?

(cmake 2.6-2)

ping?

Please create a bug entry.

Done [1], and thanks. I wasn't sure how this was supposed to work.

Also, don't create variables with odd characters in them as CMake does not correctly warn that this is invalid right now. :)

No worries, I was actually hoping the set would fail also. As mentioned in [2] I was trying to work around bug 8226 [3], and wanted to verify that such variables were invalid. So, I hope they will stay invalid ;-). (But yes, it would be good for SET to fail, as well as expansion.)

1: http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8228
2: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.user/17555
3: http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8226

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