On 2008-01-27 22:28-0500 Brandon Van Every wrote:
On Jan 27, 2008 8:34 PM, Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I would like to be able to read arbitrary environment variables from within cmake. The 2.4.8 documentation only refers to $ENV once as "$ENV{PATH}" in an extremely narrow context (the TO_CMAKE_PATH signature of the FILE command). However, when I tried, e.g.,SET(pc_path "$ENV{PKG_CONFIG_PATH}") it seemed to work. Is this usage supported in general?As far as I know. You can test all these things out with trivial scripts to prove that they work or don't work.
Yes, that is exactly what I have done, but the question remains is this some side effect that might be removed later or is the code meant to work that way, i.e., is it a supported use?
It would be best if you file a (documentation, text) bug report for this. Preferably with the wordsmithing you think should be used, and where it should be used, based on what you have determined works properly. I've been doing this for various documentation embellishments in recent months, and they are getting acted upon and closed.
Well, it does sound like you have been successful with that approach so I may adopt it, but generally I am quite hesitant to go through formal bug reporting for stuff that can be fixed much faster than the time spent on bug triage. IOW, I hope CMake developers read this list and when they see small issues reported they fix it immediately rather than fooling around with bug reports, assigning somebody to deal with it, etc. Finally, there is no point in me suggesting new documentation wording when questions like the above are still outstanding. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
