From 1830690a0dc0719922bd7cb51dc8502d884c873e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman@kitware.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:37:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: expand variables in message command output

---
 Source/cmMessageCommand.cxx | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Source/cmMessageCommand.cxx b/Source/cmMessageCommand.cxx
index bb28eabdf..157a7ee36 100644
--- a/Source/cmMessageCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmMessageCommand.cxx
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ bool cmMessageCommand::InitialPass(std::vector<std::string> const& args)
     this->SetError("called with incorrect number of arguments");
     return false;
     }
-  
+  std::string arg0 = args[0];
+  m_Makefile->ExpandVariablesInString(arg0);
   if (args.size() >= 2)
     {
     std::string message;
@@ -59,11 +60,12 @@ bool cmMessageCommand::InitialPass(std::vector<std::string> const& args)
       {
       message += *i;
       }
-    cmSystemTools::Message(args[0].c_str(), message.c_str());
+    m_Makefile->ExpandVariablesInString(message);
+    cmSystemTools::Message(arg0.c_str(), message.c_str());
     }
   else
     {
-    cmSystemTools::Message(args[0].c_str());
+    cmSystemTools::Message(arg0.c_str());
     }
   
   return true;