On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Bill Hoffman <[email protected]>wrote:

> Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>
>> But it does work! I've tested it several times with much success! I'm not
>> sure what you're saying about *.c, *.cxx, and *.h. Could you explain? Also,
>> I won't have access to a bash shell on Windows. I'd rather CMake just work
>> instead of trying to find silly workarounds like this.
>>
>> I'll put in the feature request for {} and at some point in the future it
>> can be addressed.
>>
> Can someone point me to a definition of what glob is supposed to have in
> it?  It seems to vary from php glob, perl glob, various different shell
> globs, etc.  I can not seem to find a definitive answer as to what a glob
> function is supposed to do, other than it is something shy of a regular
> expression.  The CMake one seems to do about the same as a bash shell as far
> as I can tell.


Here is bash's glob support
http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/globbingref.html

MS-Dos and Windows are limited to '*' and '?'

Not sure about everyone else.  If CMake can support all of what Bash
supports that probably would be above and beyond the call of duty.

-- 
Philip Lowman
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