[CMake] Success with Compaq Visual Fortran - at least some!

[Arjen Markus]

Brad King wrote:

>Arjen Markus wrote:
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>>>  SET(CMAKE_WINDOWS_OBJECT_PATH 1)
>>>      
>>>
>>While it worked with my small test project (single file, single language),
>>it fails with PLplot: the setting gets in the way of the detailed tests on
>>the capacities of the C compiler. I get error messages about the incorrect
>>use of GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT that I have never seen before.
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>What is the actual error message?
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I did not have time this morning to include that in my message (two 
different
workplaces) but I will send it this evening.

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>>Is the setting cached for that particular compiler?
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>No, but it should be a per-language/per-compiler setting.  I don't have
>time to look at this but if you grep in the CMake/Source directory for
>CMAKE_WINDOWS_OBJECT_PATH you will see how it is used.  The code that
>uses it needs to decide how to format the path name for each object file
>when writing into the build.make file.  You may be able to patch this
>code to make a per-language decision (CMAKE_CXX_WINDOWS_OBJECT_PATH,
>CMAKE_Fortran_WINDOWS_OBJECT_PATH, ...).
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That is what I was hoping for ... Hm, a language-specific parameter? That
ought to do the trick.

Regards,

Arjen
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