[CMake] Problem with if() and booleans

[Robert Dailey]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Philip Lowman <philip at yhbt.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I currently have the following macro:
>>
>> macro( get_conf_dependencies var_name project_name debug )
>>    if( debug )
>>        message( "Using DEBUG" )
>>        set( ${var_name} ${${project_name}_DEBUG_DEPENDENCIES} )
>>    else()
>>        set( ${var_name} ${${project_name}_RELEASE_DEPENDENCIES} )
>>    endif()
>> endmacro()
>> I then call the macro in two particular ways:
>> get_conf_dependencies( myVar myProject TRUE )
>> get_conf_dependencies( myVar myProject FALSE )
>> In both cases, I *do not* get the message "Using DEBUG". Are my eyes
>> playing tricks on me, or is CMake not processing trivial boolean logic
>> properly in its conditionals? I'm using version 2.6.3.
>>
>
> I ran into the same issue a while back.  Use a function() or actual
> variables in your call to get_conf_dependencies.
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8397
>

What do you mean by "actual variables"?
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