[CMake] Passing an equal sign in a list of arguments

Allen D Byrne byrn at hdfgroup.org
Mon May 10 16:26:02 EDT 2010


I found the answer to my problem in bug 0009214 : -D option can't use value with equals sign 
The trick is to qualify the tag with STRING;
        "TEST_ARGS:STRING=v;-param1;-parm2=5;--param3"

Everything is working for now.

Allen

> I have a test script where I pass a list of arguments in through a variable - TEST_ARGS. No problems until I need to pass in a parameter with an equal sign: 
>       "TEST_ARGS=v;-param1;-parm2=5;--param3"
> 
> An equal sign anywhere in the list wipes the entire list of arguments and TEST_ARGS is then empty.
> I have tried different ways of escaping, but I have not been successful. Any one have any suggestions
> 


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