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#
# A macro that evaluates an expression as supplied by a string. Suggestion
# from the Wiki http://cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Language_Syntax
#
# USAGE:
#
# EVALUATE_EXPRESSION("<expression>")
#

MACRO(EVALUATE_EXPRESSION _the_expression)
  SET(_tmp_name
    "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}${CMAKE_FILES_DIRECTORY}/CMakeTmp/evaluate_expression.tmp"
    )
  FILE(WRITE ${_tmp_name} "${_the_expression}")
  INCLUDE("${_tmp_name}")
ENDMACRO()
