[CMake] Possible Configure_File bug

[Michael Bell]

Hi,

  I use cmake with perl to help me manage directories. A perl script
might have something like this:
my  $installdir = "@EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH@";

The CMakeLists.txt file would use CONFIGURE_FILE to set the path automatically:
CONFIGURE_FILE(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${file}
        ${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/../${file}
        @ONLY)

result:
my $installdir = "/home/myhome/bin";

This worked great until I upgraded to cmake version 2.4-patch 2 this
week (I was previously using 1.8). Now, stuff is being replaced that
shouldn't be. For example:
my @arr1 = @arr2;
is being replaced, and becomes:
my _arr2; ( @.*@ => _ )
In other words, whitespace used to prevent variable replacement (as I
think it should), and now it does not.

What is the correct behavior? Do you have any suggestions for working
around this problem for a system with thousands of perl scripts which
are now affected? (I can't deal with each file by hand).

I apologize if this issue has been addressed. I was not able to find
anything related in the archives or the bug list.

Thanks for your help,
michael


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