[CMake] [BUG?] Setting environment variables with embedded blanks does not work with VERBATIM

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2010-01-03 11:44-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> [...]
> COMMAND DUMMY=${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} printenv DUMMY
>
> This works fine if there are no embedded blanks in CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR,
> and the bash result of the above cmake COMMAND in a custom target is
>
> DUMMY=/home/software/plplot_svn/HEAD/build_dir/examples printenv DUMMY
>
> with the expected output
>
> /home/software/plplot_svn/HEAD/build_dir/examples
>
> However, if CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR has an embedded blank, e.g.,
>
> /home/software/plplot svn/HEAD/build_dir/examples
>
> then the resulting generated command is
>
> "DUMMY=/home/software/plplot svn/HEAD/build_dir/examples" printenv DUMMY
>
> which gives the bash error
>
> /bin/sh: DUMMY=/home/software/plplot svn/HEAD/build_dir/examples: No such
> file or directory
>
> because bash does not like quotes around variable assignment statements.
>
> To solve this issue, VERBATIM should simply put the quotes around everything
> after the equal sign when there are embedded blanks, e.g.,
>
> DUMMY="/home/software/plplot svn/HEAD/build_dir/examples" printenv DUMMY
>
> which I have verified works fine on the bash command line.  If the CMake
> developers here agree that is a VERBATIM bug, I will write up the
> appropriate bug report in the cmake bug tracker to keep track of the issue.

Response, please?

Alan
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