[CMake] CMake 2.8.1 RC 4 is ready to try

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2010-03-06 17:02+0100 Eric Noulard wrote:

> 2010/3/6 Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>:
>
>>>>> Not really a show-stopper since I have no problem using this RC
>>>>> but I do have a problem "Building it" on 2 linux boxes
>>>>> (first is Ubuntu 9.10 and the other is Fedora 11) using gcc 4.4.1:
>>>>
>>>> I can confirm this for Ubuntu 9.10.
>>>> In the appendix is the generated output.
>>
>> Reading your output, your problem is not the same as mine.
>> You did bootstrap when I was using cmake 2.6.4 to compile 2.8.1.
>
> You should try to bootstrap out-of-source:
>
> cd /path/to/CMake
> cd ..
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../CMake/bootstrap

Just to add some more data and opinion to this thread, I always bootstrap in
a clean source tree (freshly downloaded from kitware) out of inertia. That
procedure is how I started to build CMake years ago, and it has always
worked.  In fact, that procedure worked just fine for cmake-2.8.1-rc3 on my
Debian Lenny platform.  So I suspect Micha Renner didn't have a clean
bootstrap=source tree or some issue like that.

If there is no easy "clean-tree" solution to the issue found by Micha, then
one rather wild possibility is cmake bootstrap might make configuration
assumptions that are not compatible with the newer version of g++ which I
assume Micha has installed on his Ubuntu-9.10 platform.  For what it is
worth, my Debian Lenny g++ version is

g++ (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2

Ubuntu-9.10 may have a legacy gcc package that Micha could install that
provides something nearer this version of g++ if using either a clean
source=bootstrap tree or a clean out-of-source bootstrap tree does not work.

Alan
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