From c57d16eb414345bf62545686efaf4a4ff91ba686 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman@kitware.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:23:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: add better error checking

---
 Source/cmSetCommand.cxx | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Source/cmSetCommand.cxx b/Source/cmSetCommand.cxx
index 576cae9bb8..54242ce46a 100644
--- a/Source/cmSetCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmSetCommand.cxx
@@ -84,6 +84,21 @@ bool cmSetCommand::Invoke(std::vector<std::string>& args)
     value = args[1];
     cacheStart = 2;
     }
+  else
+    {
+    std::string message;
+    message += "Syntax error in SET:\n";
+    message += "CACHE requires TYPE and document string SET command:\n";
+    message += "SET (";
+    for(std::vector<std::string>::iterator i = args.begin();
+        i != args.end(); ++i)
+      {
+      message += *i;
+      }
+    message += ")\n";
+    this->SetError(message.c_str());
+    return false;
+    }
   if(cache)
     {
     if(args[cacheStart] != "CACHE")