[CMake] CMake 2.8.0 RC 3 ready for testing!

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sun Oct 11 10:21:01 EDT 2009


Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Saturday 10 October 2009, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> CMake 2.8.0 RC 3 is now ready for people to try.
>> You can find the source and binaries here:
>> http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/.
>>
>> Here are the changes for the 2.8.0 branch so far:
>>
>> Changes in CMake 2.8.0 RC 3
>> - Avoid non-root copies of root-only targets
> 
> What's this ?

A bug fix for some of the IDE generators that created too many copies of 
some of the generated targets.

> 
>> - Find locally installed software first
> 
> i.e. /usr/local/ is now checked before /usr/.
> This one may change the result of the find_xxx() calls. Are you sure this 
> won't break stuff ?

According to the bug report /usr/local should be used by sys-admins to 
override other system installs of software.  It was part of a bundle of 
patches that debian was already applying to CMake.

-Bill


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