[vtk-developers] target_link_libraries and spaces in path (cmake 2.8.8)

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

No luck there. Tried printing the variable just before and after the
target_link...() call. In both cases I get the following path printed:

 C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/lib/amd64/msmpi.lib

Utkarsh

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:47 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2012, at 9:40 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 17, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:18 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> It should not be necessary in that context. Where else is MPI_LIBRARIES referenced, though? Is it used in a configured script of some sort?
>>>
>>> Not that I could find. Also MPI_LIBRARIES is coming from FindMPI.cmake
>>> included in CMake source. Also in some cases, it is possible that
>>> MPI_LIBRARIES will be more than one, in that case using quotes will be
>>> incorrect, right?
>>>
>>> Utkarsh
>>
>>
>> On this line of code, quotes should be completely irrelevant. Quotes or no quotes..., a line like
>>
>>  target_link_libraries(target_name ${LIBRARY_VAR})
>>
>> should be entirely equivalent to the quoted version. Either works whether the contents of the variable is a single library name or a list of library names.
>>
>> What is the error message when you don't have the quotes?
>>
>
> I bet this is a "variable has different value than you think it does" problem, and any change that you made, causing the reconfigure, would have made it work.
>
> Add a message just prior to the target_link_libraries call and print out the contents of the variable. Then we can see what the value is right at that point and get to the real underlying problem.