[CMake] CMake 2.8.1 RC 3 is ready to try

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2010-02-18 08:20-0500 Bill Hoffman wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>> 
>> I also just discovered that our special CMake D language support
>> infrastructure fails for the static library case for CMake 2.8.1 RC 3.  It
>> should take me quite a while to see what is wrong in that case, since
>> language support is so "magic" with its own set of hard-to-understand (at
>> least for me) rules.  Ultimately, the issue will probably be something
>> specific to 2.6.x in the way we have written our D language support rather
>> than something intrinsic to the CMake core. So there is no point in waiting
>> for us to resolve that D static library issue before making the 2.8.1
>> release.
>> 
>
> It would be good if you were to track this D issue down a bit more. Perhaps 
> create a very small example and show the VERBOSE=1 output from 2.6 and 2.8 (I 
> assume 2.8.0 did not work either but it was never tested with PlPlot?).

This D language support is someone else's, and I am not that familiar with
the D language itself, but I will try.  Also, I will let you know how it is
going by late this (Thursday) evening (at the latest) so you can make an
informed decision about the release.

And your assumption was correct.  Because of the 2.8.0 Fortran problem
(which only showed up in the static library case), I had been avoiding build
testing of PLplot in the static case for 2.8.0 which is why this D static
library issue was only discovered yesterday.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
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