On 12/04/2012 07:31 PM, James Bigler wrote:
> Is this a bug or is what I'm trying to do impossible?

In the code

>     set(mylist a b c)
>     set(mystring "a b c")
>     set(mylist_from_string ${mystring})

the ${mystring} is evaluated and arguments are divided only on ';' so it
results in a single argument.  It is not whitespace-based like in shell
syntax.

Look at the separate_arguments command to parse command lines on
whitespace and get CMake lists back.

-Brad
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