[CMake] CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS not a list?

[David Cole]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Gregory Peele ARA/CFD <gpeele at ara.com>wrote:

>  Hey all,
>
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> When tracking down why some custom linker flags weren't working right, I
> realized that CMAKE_EXE_LINKER flags (and its cousins for shared libraries)
> are not semicolon delimited lists but rather treat the flags as a single
> space-delimited string.  I also saw the closed bug report at
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7476 related to this issue.
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> I have adjusted my CMakeLists to work correctly given this behavior, but
> I'm wondering why this is the case, as the variable is semantically a list
> of linker arguments and I would intuitively expect the LIST commands to work
> properly with it.  Is it because it eventually gets stored in a target
> property which does not support list values?
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> Thanks,
>
> Gregory Peele, Jr.
>
> Applied Research Associates, Inc.
>


No special reason behind this quirk of behavior. It's just historical
remnants. Has to be kept the same for now for backwards compatibility.

If we were doing it over again, it would probably be a list.


HTH,
David
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