Re: [CMake] spaces in generator strings troublesome (Michael Ellery)

2017-11-22 Thread Stefan . Waigand
Hi Michael Ellery thank you for your reply. > perhaps handle arguments as an array variable in bash - it?s a > slightly saner way to deal with args with spaces: > > CMDLINE=(. -G"Unix Makefiles") && cmake "${CMDLINE[@]}? Well i already got it working in bash when i wrote that. I have the para

Re: [CMake] spaces in generator strings troublesome (Konstantin Tokarev)

2017-11-22 Thread Stefan . Waigand
Hello Konstantin Tokarev, thank you for your answer. > Just write your scripts in decent language Well, i know, there are more sophisticated languages than bash. But in our environment here unfortunately there are reasons why we cannot use another language. Please do not let us discuss why. M

[CMake] spaces in generator strings troublesome

2017-11-10 Thread Stefan . Waigand
Hello, the usual way to pass a generator string to the cmake executable on the command line is: cmake . -G"Unix Makefiles" But when i have some bash scripting around it and try to hold the command line arguments in a variable, the trouble begins... export CMDLINE=". -G\"Unix Makefiles\