ENH: Better policies for functions and macros

This teaches functions and macros to use policies recorded at creation
time when they are invoked.  It restores the policies as a weak policy
stack entry so that any policies set by a function escape to its caller
as before.

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Tests/PolicyScope/CMakeLists.txt b/Tests/PolicyScope/CMakeLists.txt
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+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6.3)
+project(PolicyScope C)
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Helper function to report results.
+function(check msg lhs rhs)
+  if(NOT "${lhs}" STREQUAL "${rhs}")
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "${msg}: expected [${lhs}], got [${rhs}]")
+  endif()
+endfunction(check)
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Test function and macro policy recording.
+
+# Create the functions in an isolated scope in which we change policies.
+cmake_policy(PUSH)
+if(1)
+  # Change CMP0002
+  cmake_policy(SET CMP0002 OLD)
+  function(func1)
+    # CMP0002 should be changed when this function is invoked
+    cmake_policy(GET CMP0002 cmp)
+    check(CMP0002 "OLD" "${cmp}")
+  endfunction(func1)
+
+  # Unset CMP0002
+  cmake_policy(VERSION 2.4)
+  macro(macro1)
+    # CMP0002 should be unset when this macro is invoked
+    cmake_policy(GET CMP0002 cmp)
+    check(CMP0002 "" "${cmp}")
+
+    # Setting the policy should work here and also in the caller.
+    cmake_policy(SET CMP0002 OLD)
+    cmake_policy(GET CMP0002 cmp)
+    check(CMP0002 "OLD" "${cmp}")
+  endmacro(macro1)
+endif(1)
+cmake_policy(POP)
+
+# CMP0002 should still be NEW in this context.
+cmake_policy(GET CMP0002 cmp)
+check(CMP0002 "NEW" "${cmp}")
+
+# Check the recorded policies
+func1()
+macro1()
+
+# The macro should have changed CMP0002.
+cmake_policy(GET CMP0002 cmp)
+check(CMP0002 "OLD" "${cmp}")
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Dummy executable so the project can build and run.
+add_executable(PolicyScope main.c)