[vtk-developers] VTK and CMake 2.8rc2 - argument named "TRUE" in a conditional - policy CMP0012

[Sean McBride]

On 10/2/09 6:02 PM, Brad King said:

>Sean McBride wrote:
>> actually two bytes (C2A0) which apparently caused CMake to silently
>> ignore the entire FOREACH statement!
>
>Wow, nice!
>
>What CMake sees here is
>
>  foreach(policy*CMP0012*CMP0013*CMP0014)
>
>where the '*' is the bad character.  It thinks that this is a loop
>variable called 'policy*CMP0012*CMP0013*CMP0014', and that there are
>no values over which to loop.

Ahhh, makes sense.

>I'm not sure we can fix this easily.  People might be using all
>kinds of characters in their strings and variable names.

Agreed.

I guess I should have just pulled your git repository. :)

Cheers,

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