[CMake] Re: How to pass arguments to 'cmake -P' scripts?

[Bill Hoffman]

Brandon Van Every wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2008 2:44 PM, Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
>> I think this is documented now in cmake 2.4.8
> 
> It is:
> 
> #  -P <file>: Process script mode.
> 
> Process the given cmake file as a script written in the CMake
> language. No configure or generate step is performed and the cache is
> not modified. If variables are defined using -D, this must be done
> before the -P argument.
> 
> 
> But my question is *why* must -P be the last thing?  Is this a design
> flaw, or is there some shell reason for it?
> 

I think it is so you can have multiple -P options with different -D 
options between them.  The command line options are basically executed 
in the order they are seen, and not queued up for later.

-Bill