On Aug 13, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Clifford Yapp <cliffy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Glenn Coombs <glenn.coo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I haven't seen any discussion yet of my 2nd alternative of getting cmake to >> automatically convert lists to space separated strings for certain variables >> like CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE. If cmake did this then there would be >> less need for the concat version of set() as one could just use the existing >> list(APPEND) functionality. Is this a realistic possibility, or are there >> implementation issues with this suggestion ? > > This surprised me as well - if you want to assemble a list of flags > "on the fly" (I needed to assemble lists of lists of flags - we pass a > lot of them) you have to take some care to either do the set trick > correctly or convert the list to a string at the "end" (if you can be > sure of where that is). > > Do I understand correctly that the main concern is the ability to pass > args with ";' characters in these cases? Then the question becomes > whether quoting ";" characters as needed in user-specified options is > tricker than navigating the current behavior. To be honest, I can see > where trying to specify an argument with a quoted ";" character from > the command line would get a bit messy (in a "ok, how do I quote this > from this enviornment" sort of way) - how common are ";" characters as > components of variable values? Again, our main concern here will be backward compatibility, not difficulty of encoding semi-colons... There are tons of real-world projects that already use all of these variables and properties being discussed with their current semantics. > > Cheers, > CY > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
