[CMake] Updated: CMake 2.8.4-1

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2011-05-19 14:19-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote:

> On 5/19/2011 2:11 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> On 2011-05-19 10:55-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> 
>>> CMake 2.8.4-1 is now available on Cygwin mirrors.
>> 
>> Hi Bill:
>> 
>> Could you give some background information about why you create a
>> binary version of cmake for Cygwin that is separated in time and
>> location from the usual binaries that come with any release of cmake?
>> 
>> Could any Cygwin user create that binary using an older Cygwin cmake
>> binary + source code? Or are additional Cygwin-only cmake source code
>> patches and/or special configuration required as well?
>> 
>> IOW, is there anything special going on here or is this just a routine
>> binary build of cmake for Cygwin users' convenience?
>> 
>> I am interested in the requested background information because I hope
>> to test builds of cmake, PLplot, and other software shortly under
>> wine/Cygwin. (Similar to my earlier build tests of cmake, etc. on a
>> wine/MinGW/MSYS platform.)
>> 
>
> My bad, I will try to be better about it in the future.  I have no good 
> excuse.  :)

Actually, I didn't mean to question why this Cygwin release of cmake
was later than the normal release of cmake-2.8.4.  (These things
happen.) But the separate nature of all the Cygwin releases (not just
this one) got me curious about whether there are any special
circumstances for building cmake on Cygin compared to the other
platforms you cover in your normal release.  If there is nothing
special (i.e., bog-standard cmake on Cygwin with no special
configuration or patches), please let me know as well.

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

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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