AW: [CMake] Change in variable resolution?

wedekind wedekind at caesar.de
Fri Nov 17 10:06:49 EST 2006


Hello Bill,

>This seems to be a bug fix:
>
>http://www.cmake.org/Bug/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2722
>There was some discussion here:
>
>http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cmake/2006-January/007942.html

There seems to be an error in this bug-fix. As I understand it, the intent
was to still allow resolution of @-variables in CONFIGURE_FILE. But that
does not work anymore.

>However, I am concerned about backwards compatibility.   It was never
>meant to be used in
>cmake list files, but it has been inadvertently  supported in them since
>the beginning.
>
>-Bill

Ok, good to know. Fortunately it was not a big problem for me to switch from
@-variables to ${}-variables.

Cheers

Marco




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