[CMake] Windows mapped network drive and 'if EXISTS'

Louis-Paul CORDIER lp.cordier at dynamixyz.com
Fri Mar 3 09:43:10 EST 2017


Does not solve the issue here...
I'm using the latest cmake release 3.7.2

Your Z is a mapped network drive, am I right?

This behaviour is causing find_package to fail as well.

Le 03/03/2017 à 15:23, Nils Gladitz a écrit :
> On 03/03/2017 02:28 PM, Louis-Paul CORDIER wrote:
>
>>
>> When I try to do a if(EXISTS "Z:\"), it never jump into the if 
>> statement.
>
> Try if(EXISTS "Z:\\") or if(EXISTS "Z:/").
> Either works for me.
>
> if(EXISTS "Z:\") looks like it should have been a syntax error since 
> the backslash starts an escape sequence [1].
>
> Nils
>
> [1] 
> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-language.7.html#escape-sequences
>
>
>



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