[CMake] CMake 2.4.4 available for download

Alan W. Irwin irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca
Thu Nov 23 10:13:43 EST 2006


On 2006-11-21 19:31-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> CMake[2.4.4] built cleanly (using the bootstrap script to start) on my Debian
> stable and Ubuntu Dapper systems.  However, there were errors (certain
> necessary scripts were silently not created) when I attempted to build
> PLplot with the new version of CMake.
>
> I suspect this is a bug in CMake-2.4.4, but I am not sure.[...]

Upon further reflection, I think this is a newly introduced bug in
CMake-2.4.4 that urgently needs to be fixed.  Essentially what is going on
is that the namespace of filenames which are mentioned in DEPENDS
subcommands has been contaminated by the target namespace in 2.4.4.  This is
especially bad since targets affect the whole build tree.  Thus, all build
systems (KDE?) with coincidences between any target name and any filename
DEPENDS will be adversely affected by this bug.

I hope to create a simple example and bug report soon.

Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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