ENH: make properties a bit more formal with documentation and chaining

1 files changed, 64 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmDefinePropertyCommand.cxx b/Source/cmDefinePropertyCommand.cxx
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+/*=========================================================================
+
+  Program:   CMake - Cross-Platform Makefile Generator
+  Module:    $RCSfile$
+  Language:  C++
+  Date:      $Date$
+  Version:   $Revision$
+
+  Copyright (c) 2002 Kitware, Inc., Insight Consortium.  All rights reserved.
+  See Copyright.txt or http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Copyright.html for details.
+
+     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 
+     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
+     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.
+
+=========================================================================*/
+#include "cmDefinePropertyCommand.h"
+#include "cmake.h"
+
+// cmDefinePropertiesCommand
+bool cmDefinePropertyCommand::InitialPass(
+  std::vector<std::string> const& args)
+{
+  if(args.size() < 5 )
+    {
+    this->SetError("called with incorrect number of arguments");
+    return false;
+    }
+
+  // determine the scope
+  cmProperty::ScopeType scope;
+  if (args[1] == "GLOBAL")
+    {
+    scope = cmProperty::GLOBAL;
+    }
+  else if (args[1] == "DIRECTORY")
+    {
+    scope = cmProperty::DIRECTORY;
+    }
+  else if (args[1] == "TARGET")
+    {
+    scope = cmProperty::TARGET;
+    }
+  else if (args[1] == "SOURCE_FILE")
+    {
+    scope = cmProperty::SOURCE_FILE;
+    }
+  else if (args[1] == "TEST")
+    {
+    scope = cmProperty::TEST;
+    }
+  else
+    {
+    this->SetError("called with illegal arguments.");
+    return false;
+    }
+
+  this->Makefile->GetCMakeInstance()->DefineProperty
+    (args[0].c_str(), scope,args[2].c_str(), args[3].c_str(),
+     cmSystemTools::IsOn(args[4].c_str()));
+  
+  return true;
+}
+