> No black magic, just cmake's rules about variable contents. > Basically CMake has only 1 type of variable value, thats a string. What > you created above is a string variable "DEPS" with the value "dep1 dep2 > dep3", i.e. a single string consisting of 3 words separated by spaces. > Some strings are considered to be a list if you use a cmake command that > expects a list, these strings need to separate each list entry with a > semicolon.If you use
Actually I knew about the rules on variable contents as well as the structure and generation on lists. However I didn't realize that set(DEPS "dep1 dep2 dep3") add_dependencies(foo bar ${DEPS}) is not pretty much the same as: add_dependencies(target-name depend-target1 depend-target2 ...), which is straight from the documentation. This is what tricked me and I still think it's counter intuitive, but after all, it's not the first time cmake makes me sweat with some trivial stuff :) I'm realizing that CMake probably generates a list of targets straight from the command invocation and works on that later on. The/my confusion roots in the quite weird way that can be used to create lists (set(var elem1 elem2...)). Correct me if I'm wrong, though! Thanks a bunch for enlightening me! Regards, -- Szilárd _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake