On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Hauke Heibel <hauke.hei...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Michael Hertling <mhertl...@online.de> > wrote: > > You might use -DMY_VARIABLE="${ARGUMENTS}" without VERBATIM, and > > SEPARATE_ARGUMENTS(MY_VARIABLE) in Foo.cmake. This doesn't prevent > > the list's conversion, but seems a bit smarter than a FOREACH loop. > > I considered this but since MY_VARIABLE contains paths which may > contain white spaces, I explicitly chose the asterisk because it > cannot be part of a path. > > Nonetheless thanks for the reply. > > - Hauke > _______________________________________________ > 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 > We use a similar technique in the ExternalProject module with a parameter we call LIST_SEPARATOR. The idea is that you can encode a list with an arbitrary string of your choosing that is not otherwise in your input list (like you've chosen the asterisk) into a string that contains no semi-colons. And then decode it with a string replace operation just before using it. The code used in ExternalProject looks like this: get_property(sep TARGET ${name} PROPERTY _EP_LIST_SEPARATOR) if(sep AND command) string(REPLACE "${sep}" "\\;" command "${command}") endif() It ends up lookin like this at the calling point: ExternalProject_Add(proj ... LIST_SEPARATOR :: CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=<INSTALL_DIR> -DTEST_LIST:STRING=A::B::C ... ) I think that's the best you can do, even though you called it a hack in the original posting. :-) Let me know if you come up with a non-hack. I'd be curious to see it... HTH, David
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