diff --git a/examples/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
index 82ad108920..e75afc2e7a 100644
--- a/examples/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ link_directories(${PMEMOBJ_LIBRARY_DIRS})
 add_cppstyle(examples-common ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/*.hpp)
 add_check_whitespace(examples-common ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/*.hpp)
 
-function(add_example name srcs)
+function(add_example name)
+	set(srcs ${ARGN})
 	prepend(srcs ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ${srcs})
 	add_executable(example-${name} ${srcs})
 	add_cppstyle(examples-${name} ${srcs})
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index 57dc6cdd1a..9120fcaeb1 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -85,12 +85,13 @@ set(CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES ${SAVED_CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES})
 add_cppstyle("tests-common" ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/common/*.*pp)
 add_check_whitespace("tests-common" ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/common/*.*pp)
 
-function(build_test name srcs)
+function(build_test name)
 	# skip posix tests
 	if(${name} MATCHES "posix$" AND WIN32)
 		return()
 	endif()
 
+	set(srcs ${ARGN})
 	prepend(srcs ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ${srcs})
 
 	add_cppstyle(tests-${name} ${srcs})