diff --git a/Source/cmCacheManager.cxx b/Source/cmCacheManager.cxx
index 9fc1a5ab7b..6a47ea7997 100644
--- a/Source/cmCacheManager.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmCacheManager.cxx
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ bool cmCacheManager::ParseEntry(const std::string& entry,
 {
   // input line is:         key:type=value
   static cmsys::RegularExpression reg(
-    "^([^:]*):([^=]*)=(.*[^\r\t ]|[\r\t ]*)[\r\t ]*$");
+    "^([^=:]*):([^=]*)=(.*[^\r\t ]|[\r\t ]*)[\r\t ]*$");
   // input line is:         "key":type=value
   static cmsys::RegularExpression regQuoted(
     "^\"([^\"]*)\":([^=]*)=(.*[^\r\t ]|[\r\t ]*)[\r\t ]*$");
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/CMakeLists.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2897109554
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
+project(${RunCMake_TEST} NONE)
+include(${RunCMake_TEST}.cmake)
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_nested_cache-stderr.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_nested_cache-stderr.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bba64bcbd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_nested_cache-stderr.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+^-->-DBAR:BOOL=BAZ<--$
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_nested_cache.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_nested_cache.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9b572840e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_nested_cache.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+message("-->${FOO}<--")
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_typed_nested_cache-stderr.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_typed_nested_cache-stderr.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bba64bcbd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_typed_nested_cache-stderr.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+^-->-DBAR:BOOL=BAZ<--$
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_typed_nested_cache.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_typed_nested_cache.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9b572840e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/D_typed_nested_cache.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+message("-->${FOO}<--")
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/RunCMakeTest.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/RunCMakeTest.cmake
index 5622a5ba8c..84e36145fb 100644
--- a/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/RunCMakeTest.cmake
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/RunCMakeTest.cmake
@@ -43,3 +43,11 @@ run_cmake_command(E_sleep-bad-arg2 ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E sleep 1 -1)
 run_cmake_command(E_sleep-one-tenth ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E sleep 0.1)
 
 run_cmake_command(P_directory ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -P ${RunCMake_SOURCE_DIR})
+
+set(RunCMake_TEST_OPTIONS
+  "-DFOO=-DBAR:BOOL=BAZ")
+run_cmake(D_nested_cache)
+
+set(RunCMake_TEST_OPTIONS
+  "-DFOO:STRING=-DBAR:BOOL=BAZ")
+run_cmake(D_typed_nested_cache)