[CMake] CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.6.0 FATAL_ERROR) and cmake_policy(VERSION 2.6.0) not working correctly for 2.6.2

Alan W. Irwin irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca
Fri Feb 6 11:36:36 EST 2009


On 2009-02-06 08:19-0500 Brad King wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.6.0 FATAL_ERROR)
>> 
>> is used?
>> 
>> If a policy is undefined as for CMP0008 and CMP0009 for 2.6.2 what does 
>> that
>> mean? Is that the same as OLD (or NEW) or does the policy implementation
>> have buggy/unknown behaviour under these circumstances?
>
> The policies are defined but "unset".  I've updated the documentation to 
> clarify this:
>
> - "All policies introduced after the specified version will be reset "
> - "to use OLD behavior with a warning.  "
> + "All policies introduced after the specified version will be unset.  "

Perfect.  Thanks for that clarifying documentation change.  I am glad
everything was working just as intended.

Alan
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