Hi Alan,
thanks for the change. I consider it quite helpful (at least for my
daily work :). And I don't expect any problems for anybody else.
Regards,
Werner
Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2008-02-08 09:34-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Werner. Please bring up this issue again after the release if I
>> forget to do it myself.
>
> Hi Werner:
>
> Since nobody argued against this and you argued well for it, I have just
> reinstated your change.
>
> I wanted to delay this until after the release because I was concerned about
> the implementation; CMake handles -DLIB_TAG:STRING=whatever differently
> than -DLIB_TAG=whatever. (It puts the typed version in the cache and just
> sets an ordinary variable when it is not typed.) However, some simple tests
> I have done seem to indicate that your implementation with the simple
>
> set(LIB_TAG "${LIB_TAG}d")
>
> does the right thing whether the -D option is typed or not (probably because
> this set command only sets the ordinary CMake variable and not the cached
> version).
>
> The handling of untyped -D options will be changed for CMake 2.6.x (I think
> they will be put into the cache just like typed variables) so we may have to
> revisit this, but the implementation should be fine for now and should give
> the same results for untyped and typed setting of LIB_TAG with a -D
> option.
>
> Alan
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