[CMake] Module CMakeParseArguments: confusing last paragraph in documentation

Petr Kmoch petr.kmoch at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 06:31:04 EST 2015


My guess is there's a "not" missing between "would" and "result in
MY_INSTALL_DESTINATION set to"

Petr

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Marcel Loose <loose at astron.nl> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> Several times I've read the last paragraph of the documentation of module
> CMakeParseArguments, but I can't get my head around it.
>
> Keywords terminate lists of values, e.g. if directly after a
> one_value_keyword another recognized keyword follows, this is interpreted
> as the beginning of the new option. E.g. my_install(TARGETS foo DESTINATION
> OPTIONAL) would result in MY_INSTALL_DESTINATION set to “OPTIONAL”, but
> MY_INSTALL_DESTINATION would be empty and MY_INSTALL_OPTIONAL would be set
> to TRUE therefor.
>
>  Huh? [...] MY_INSTALL_DESTINATION will be set to "OPTIONAL", but would be
> empty [...] ???
>
> Reading the first sentence of this paragraph, I concluded that
> MY_INSTALL_DESTINATION will be empty, not would be.
>
> Best regards,
> Marcel Loose.
>
>
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