[CMake] Error at FindKDE3.cmake: "mode MATCH needs at least 5 arguments"

[Bill Hoffman]

Alexander Thomas wrote:
> I have a project which uses Qt3, with a CMakeLists.txt containing these 
> lines:
> 
> find_package(Qt3 REQUIRED) # find and setup Qt3 for this project
> find_package(KDE3 REQUIRED) # for kde3_automoc
> add_definitions(${QT_DEFINITIONS} ${KDE3_DEFINITIONS})
> 
> This has worked fine for years, but when I now try to do a 'configure' 
> in ccmake, I get this error:
> 
>  CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindKDE3.cmake:109 (STRING):
>    string sub-command REGEX, mode MATCH needs at least 5 arguments total 
> to command.
>  Call Stack (most recent call first):
>    CMakeLists.txt:10 (find_package)
> 
> 
> That specific line in that file looks like this:
>    STRING(REGEX MATCH "KDE: .\\." kde_version ${kde_config_version})
> 
> This is on Fedora 10, and there has been a system update last night. It 
> is possible that something went wrong during that update, because the 
> machine crashed when I tried to log in.
> What could be the cause of that error, and how can it be fixed?
> 
What version of cmake is this?

-Bill