[CMake] CMake 2.8.6-rc3 ready for testing!

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2011-09-20 11:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> I don't want to overly dilute what seems to be your really important
> message that there are serious build problems for cmake-2.8.6-rc3, but
> if nothing else, your post should galvanize lots of testing of
> cmake-2.8.6-rc3 which is a "good thing".  When I did such build
> testing myself, the optimized build of PLplot appears to be OK for
> cmake-2.8.6-rc3 on at least my platform.

P.S. I should have mentioned that the bug concerned FindThreads.cmake,
and the PLplot build system does use "find_package(Threads)" for the
xwin device driver.  So I am a bit surprised I am not seeing the issue
for an optimized build that includes that device driver.

Alan
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