[CMake] cmake-2.8.12: generator expression error when linker flags have comma

Jed Brown jed at 59A2.org
Sun Oct 20 21:02:39 EDT 2013


Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> writes:

> Jed Brown wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded from cmake-2.8.11.2 to 2.8.12 and now get errors when a
>> comma ',' appears in a linker flag.  Test case below.  Note that this is
>> but one of many reasons for a comma to appear in linker flags.
>
> I've pushed a fix candidate:
>
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=3eeb83d147030

Thanks.  Did the test case here really reproduce the problem on your
end?  Putting essentially that line

  target_link_libraries(staticlib1 LINK_PRIVATE "-L${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} -Wl,--start-group -lstaticlib3 -Wl,--end-group")

in my test case did not trigger the error.

I guess this will be in 2.8.12.1, whenever that is released?

> Remember that the way to avoid bugs like this in the release is to test a 
> release candidate.

None of my current projects use CMake.  I encountered this issue while
updating an interface to someone else's project that uses CMake.  I
reduced the test case to rule out the possibility that it was a usage
problem on his part and to make sure it was easy for you to reproduce so
that it could be fixed quickly, but I don't see it as my responsibility
to test release candidates of software that I don't use.
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