On 09/21/2015 09:37 AM, thoni56 wrote:
Quoted variables like "" will no longer be dereferenced when the policy is
You apparently have a variable whose name is the empty string.
With the old (pre CMP0054) behavior this will break comparisons with
empty strings take e.g.
set("" foobar)
set(MYVAR foobar)
if(MYVAR STREQUAL "")
message("unexpectedly true")
endif()
Where the if() comparison with old behavior will unexpectedly (for most
authors of such conditions) evaluate true.
With CMP0054's new behavior the same condition will evaluate false.
Since most cmake provided modules have to work with both the old and new
behavior a common work around is e.g.
if("x${MYVAR}" STREQUAL "x")
This workaround however only works if by convention there are no
variables starting with a lower case x in their name.
I think by that same reasoning you should avoid defining variables whose
name is the empty string.
Nils
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