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0009912CMakeCMakepublic2009-11-17 17:362016-06-10 14:31
Reporterbielow 
Assigned ToBill Hoffman 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product VersionCMake-2-8 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0009912: ampersands are not escaped in custom_commands comment section
DescriptionI used the VS2010 Win64 Generator to build a sln file and got the following error when loading the sln file into VS2010B2:

my.vcxproj : error : Unable to read the project file "my.vcxproj".
my.vcxproj(104,48): The project file could not be loaded. An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 25, position 28.

This error is due to an ampersand in a post-build event comment:

24 <PostBuildEvent>
25 <Message>blabla & blabla</Message>

which is created like this:
add_custom_command(
TARGET OpenMS
POST_BUILD
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo ""
COMMENT "blabla & blabla" VERBATIM)


Removing the "&" solves the issue, but it should be escaped by cmake if thats possible (or removed).
In VS9 the original ampersand is escaped using html-style, i.e. "&", but it seems that VS2010B2 ignores this if I replace this manually within the vcxproj file - well at least no error.
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2009-11-17 17:36bielowNew Issue
2009-11-17 17:44bielowNote Added: 0018467
2009-11-17 17:44Bill HoffmanStatusnew => assigned
2009-11-17 17:44Bill HoffmanAssigned To => Bill Hoffman
2016-06-10 14:27Kitware RobotNote Added: 0041621
2016-06-10 14:27Kitware RobotStatusassigned => resolved
2016-06-10 14:27Kitware RobotResolutionopen => moved
2016-06-10 14:31Kitware RobotStatusresolved => closed

Notes
(0018467)
bielow   
2009-11-17 17:44   
seems mantis interprets html ampersands, so read the last line as
> ... html-style, i.e. "& amp ;" ...
(0041621)
Kitware Robot   
2016-06-10 14:27   
Resolving issue as `moved`.

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