Complete quoting for parameters of some CMake commands

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Complete quoting for parameters of some CMake commands

Forum: Development

Creator: Markus Elfring

Created: 2018-10-13

Updated: 2018-10-16

Markus Elfring - 2018-10-13

A few parameters (like “${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/”) are passed to CMake commands in your build scripts without enclosing them by quotation marks. I see that these places will result in build difficulties if the contents of the used variables will contain special characters like semicolons.

I would recommend to apply advices from a wiki article.

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Daniel Marjamäki - 2018-10-14

ok I will wait for a pull request from somebody

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- Markus Elfring - 2018-10-14
  
  How will this issue influence other update suggestions for affected software build scripts?
  
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Daniel Marjamäki - 2018-10-15

How will this issue influence other update suggestions for affected software build scripts?

How does your suggestions work when CMake 2.8 is used?

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- Markus Elfring - 2018-10-16
  
  The enclosing of variable data by quotation marks is relevant for all scripts in the programming language “CMake” if you would like to care for the safe handling of semicolons.
  
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