Hi Ellon. On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 09:51, Ellon Paiva <ellonpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there, > > I was wondering if there was a way to recover the help text passed to an > option to be used later below in the same CMake script. > > I saw that the help text goes into a comment before the option on the > CMakeCache.txt, but is it stored in any recoverable variable during the > script processing ? > > Since option() just creates a cache variable, you should be able to retrieve that variable's HELPSTRING property ( https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_cache/HELPSTRING.html ): option(SampleOpt "Help") get_property(result CACHE SampleOpt PROPERTY HELPSTRING) Petr
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