[CMake] cmake cvs breaks kde4 builds

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Jan 28 08:35:30 EST 2008


Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Ok, I'll inform kde-buildsystem as this will probably need some time to
> be fixed...

Thanks.  Hopefully they can get it in a 4.0.1 patch release or something.

>> The linking implementation is going through an overhaul so there have been 
>> more changes since your original post.  Please update to the latest CVS 
>> CMake and try again.
> 
> The latest cvs as of this morning didn't "fix" the problem either.

That's not surprising.  I mostly wanted to make sure you got a version 
with the CMAKE_LINK_OLD_PATHS compatibility feature.

>> There is a compatibility feature to work around projects with this bug.  It 
>> is enabled if you set CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY to 2.4 or lower.  You 
>> can also explicitly enable the work-around by running this in your build 
>> tree:
>>
>>   cmake -DCMAKE_LINK_OLD_PATHS:BOOL=ON .
> 
> That last one works well and also setting the COMPATIBILITY flag to 2.4
> works fine.

Excellent.  Thanks for trying it so quickly.

-Brad


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