[CMake] Using a variable as a method name

[David Cole]

Not directly, but as a workaround, you could write that into a file, and
then include the file.

i.e.:

file(WRITE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/tmp.cmake" "BAR_${FOO}(arg1 arg2)")
include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/tmp.cmake)

You may need to do some quoting and/or escaping to get things working
depending on how complex arg1 and arg2 are in reality.

This sort of "eval" functionality has been requested (and denied ;-) before:

  http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=4034
  http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11845


HTH,
David


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:02 AM, LaViolette, Alan <
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