On 2007-04-16 09:30-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

My opinion is that the FORCE option to SET should _always_ force the
specified cache value (as is currently documented and as seems intuitive to
users).  When you get situations like above where it doesn't always force
the value, it can be quite confusing to users.

This is now bug 4896 entitled "FORCE option to SET does not always override
external values".  I have rated it significant because it is an accident
waiting to happen for any build-system developer that assumes the FORCE
option to SET will always work for version 2.4.6 of CMake.  For example,
this bug interfered with a subsection of PLplot development for quite a
while before I discovered this CMake issue and worked around it.

Alan
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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).
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