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William A. Hoffman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">At 12:26 AM 7/17/2006, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Because last I tried, it was broken. Precise definition of "broken" later. I'm in the middle of a huge refactoring right now, driven by these pathing and quoting and escaped whitespace problems.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->If it is broken, please let me know so it won't be broken in the next patch release
of CMake when it comes out.
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Ok, FILE(TO_NATIVE_PATH ...) is "broken" on Windows in that it doesn't
enclose the resultant path in double quotes. This is a debateable
aspect of design. Quotes get in the way of merging paths, but they are
also necessary to make a path usable. <br>
<br>
<br>
MACRO(MAKE_WINDOWS_PATH pathname)<br>
# An extra \\ escape is necessary to get a \ through CMake's
processing.<br>
STRING(REPLACE "/" "\\" ${pathname} "${${pathname}}")<br>
# Enclose with UNESCAPED quotes. This means we need to escape our<br>
# quotes once here, i.e. with \"<br>
SET(${pathname} \"${${pathname}}\")<br>
ENDMACRO(MAKE_WINDOWS_PATH)<br>
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SET(CMAKEISH_PATH "C:/Program Files/Chicken")<br>
MESSAGE(${CMAKEISH_PATH})<br>
<br>
SET(MY_NATIVE_PATH ${CMAKEISH_PATH})<br>
MAKE_WINDOWS_PATH(MY_NATIVE_PATH)<br>
MESSAGE(${MY_NATIVE_PATH})<br>
<br>
SET(YOUR_NATIVE_PATH ${CMAKEISH_PATH})<br>
FILE(TO_NATIVE_PATH ${CMAKEISH_PATH} YOUR_NATIVE_PATH)<br>
MESSAGE(${YOUR_NATIVE_PATH})<br>
<br>
MACRO(SEPARATION_TEST path)<br>
SET(SEPARATED_HOOEY ${${path}})<br>
SEPARATE_ARGUMENTS(SEPARATED_HOOEY)<br>
MESSAGE("${SEPARATED_HOOEY}")<br>
ENDMACRO(SEPARATION_TEST)<br>
<br>
SEPARATION_TEST(CMAKEISH_PATH)<br>
SEPARATION_TEST(MY_NATIVE_PATH)<br>
SEPARATION_TEST(YOUR_NATIVE_PATH)<br>
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Brandon J. Van Every@KAHLO ~<br>
$ cmake -P windowspath.cmake<br>
C:/Program Files/Chicken<br>
"C:\Program Files\Chicken"<br>
C:\Program Files\Chicken<br>
C:/Program;Files/Chicken<br>
"C:\Program;Files\Chicken"<br>
C:\Program;Files\Chicken<br>
<br>
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