[CMake] CMP0005 warning as default

[Dieter Oberkofler]

>This means that some code in your project was affected by this policy.  
Is there a way to find out where?

Thank you!

-Dieter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Hoffman [mailto:bill.hoffman at kitware.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:11 PM
> To: doberkofler.lists at gmail.com
> Cc: CMake at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [CMake] CMP0005 warning as default
> 
> Dieter Oberkofler wrote:
> > The warning offers a lot of information on how to disable but is it 
> > really intended to get the following warning by default?
> > 
> > ----------
> > CMake Warning (dev) at cmake/Definitions.cmake:51 (ADD_DEFINITIONS):
> >   Policy CMP0005 is not set: Preprocessor definition values 
> are now escaped
> >   automatically.  Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0005" for 
> policy details.  Use
> >   the cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress 
> this warning.
> > Call Stack (most recent call first):
> >   CMakeLists.txt:126 (INCLUDE)
> > This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to 
> suppress it.
> > ----------
> > 
> > If I understand the new policies correctly it should rather 
> apply the 
> > policy by default and allow to set it to OLD for 
> compatibility reasons.
> > 
> 
> This means that some code in your project was affected by 
> this policy. 
> By default CMake is doing what it did in the past, plus 
> giving you a warning that things have changed.  It is 
> expected that you would set the policy to NEW and make sure 
> your project works with it set to NEW.  This way we don't 
> break existing projects, but we can still make changes that 
> might required some modification to projects.
> 
> -Bill