[CMake] Issue with list( REMOVE_DUPLICATES )

[Robert Dailey]

I had come to find that the variable existed (the one pointed to by
list_var), however it was indeed empty.

I do appreciate you taking your free time to help me out David.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:13 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> Print it out to make sure it is what you think it is. Perhaps it's empty
> and REMOVE_DUPLICATES doesn't like empty lists? If so, file a bug:
> REMOVE_DUPLICATES should probably just be a silent no-op if the list is
> empty.
> Or is it a variable that is not defined?
>
> What does:
> MESSAGE(STATUS "list_var='${list_var}'")
> MESSAGE(STATUS "${list_var}='${${list_var}}'")
> ...executed just before the REMOVE_DUPLICATES call print out?
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:39 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Use "list_var" instead of "${list_var}"
>>>
>>> ${list_var} will only work if it happens to evaluate to the name of a
>>> list variable....
>>
>>
>> That was the entire point :)
>>
>> list_var isn't a list, it's a variable pointing to a list. Apologies if I
>> did not explain this properly before.
>>
>
>
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