[CMake] list( LENGTH ) problem

Robert Dailey rcdailey at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 11:09:56 EST 2008


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Alexander Neundorf
<a.neundorf-work at gmx.net>wrote:

> It expects a variable which holds a list:
>
> set(myList foo bar)
> list( LENGTH myList listlen )
> message( ${listlen} )
>
> (didn't test or check docs, but I think that should be it)


Why did you do:

list( LENGTH myList listlen )

instead of:

list( LENGTH ${myList} listlen )


This seems pretty inconsistent with how I pass variables into functions in
other places, like message() for example.
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