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-rw-r--r--Help/command/cmake_parse_arguments.rst14
-rw-r--r--Help/release/dev/cmake_parse_arguments-keywords_missing_values.rst6
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/cmake_parse_arguments.rst b/Help/command/cmake_parse_arguments.rst
index c8327e2..196d90f 100644
--- a/Help/command/cmake_parse_arguments.rst
+++ b/Help/command/cmake_parse_arguments.rst
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ All remaining arguments are collected in a variable
where recognized. This can be checked afterwards to see
whether your macro was called with unrecognized parameters.
+``<one_value_keywords>`` and ``<multi_value_keywords>`` that where given no
+values at all are collected in a variable ``<prefix>_KEYWORDS_MISSING_VALUES``
+that will be undefined if all keywords received values. This can be checked
+to see if there where keywords without any values given.
+
As an example here a ``my_install()`` macro, which takes similar arguments
as the real :command:`install` command:
@@ -77,7 +82,7 @@ Assume ``my_install()`` has been called like this:
.. code-block:: cmake
- my_install(TARGETS foo bar DESTINATION bin OPTIONAL blub)
+ my_install(TARGETS foo bar DESTINATION bin OPTIONAL blub CONFIGURATIONS)
After the ``cmake_parse_arguments`` call the macro will have set or undefined
the following variables::
@@ -89,6 +94,8 @@ the following variables::
MY_INSTALL_TARGETS = "foo;bar"
MY_INSTALL_CONFIGURATIONS <UNDEFINED> # was not used
MY_INSTALL_UNPARSED_ARGUMENTS = "blub" # nothing expected after "OPTIONAL"
+ MY_INSTALL_KEYWORDS_MISSING_VALUES = "CONFIGURATIONS"
+ # No value for "CONFIGURATIONS" given
You can then continue and process these variables.
@@ -97,5 +104,6 @@ one_value_keyword another recognized keyword follows, this is
interpreted as the beginning of the new option. E.g.
``my_install(TARGETS foo DESTINATION OPTIONAL)`` would result in
``MY_INSTALL_DESTINATION`` set to ``"OPTIONAL"``, but as ``OPTIONAL``
-is a keyword itself ``MY_INSTALL_DESTINATION`` will be empty and
-``MY_INSTALL_OPTIONAL`` will therefore be set to ``TRUE``.
+is a keyword itself ``MY_INSTALL_DESTINATION`` will be empty (but added
+to ``MY_INSTALL_KEYWORDS_MISSING_VALUES``) and ``MY_INSTALL_OPTIONAL`` will
+therefore be set to ``TRUE``.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/cmake_parse_arguments-keywords_missing_values.rst b/Help/release/dev/cmake_parse_arguments-keywords_missing_values.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c7fe96b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Help/release/dev/cmake_parse_arguments-keywords_missing_values.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+cmake_parse_arguments-keywords_missing_values
+---------------------------------------------
+
+* The :command:`cmake_parse_arguments` command gained an additional
+ ``<prefix>_KEYWORDS_MISSING_VALUES`` output variable to report
+ keyword arguments that were given by the caller with no values.