AW: [CMake] Change in variable resolution?

[Bill Hoffman]

wedekind wrote:
> 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.
>   
@VAR@ still worked in configure_file.  I just tested.  However, I have 
removed this bug fix in cvs,
and it will not be in 2.4.4.   It breaks backwards compatibility too much.

-Bill