I found the source of the error: ExternalProject.cmake (line 583)
add_custom_command( OUTPUT ${stamp_dir}${cfgdir}/${name}-${step} COMMENT ${comment} COMMAND ${command} COMMAND ${touch} DEPENDS ${depends} WORKING_DIRECTORY ${work_dir} VERBATIM ) nix VERBATIM, and all is well Hope this helps others from wasting hours of their life as I have. Cheers, Tim On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Tim St. Clair <timoth...@gmail.com> wrote: > For whatever command I am using if I insert a wild card to be passed in e.g. > > INSTALL_COMMAND cp blah/* ${MY_STAGING} > > becomes cp "blah/*" > > which will then yield an error. > > Is there some escape sequence I'm missing to avoid the quoting? > > -- > Cheers, > Timothy St. Clair > -- Cheers, Timothy St. Clair _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake