[cmake-developers] Welcome to June, time for the next release candidate

[Kornel Benko]

Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012 um 08:37:37, schrieb Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2012/6/5 Kornel Benko <kornel at lyx.org>:
> > Somebody shall dive into the build process of the libarchive Ubuntu package and
> > see **why** it breaks the CMake build while using cmlibarchive does not.
> 
> This is the proper action.  What version of libarchive is used from the system?
> 
> The builtin cmlibarchive in CMake 2.8.8 is libarchive 3.0.2, from svn
> rev 4051, now Git commit 28267d8f:
> 
>  https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/tree/28267d8f/
> 
> plus some portability fixes.

On ubuntu 12.04 it is package libarchive12, version 3.0.3-6ubuntu1. Dont know what, if anything, they changed.

> > This "may-be" a usage error on CMake side (and I'll try to help to fix it)
> > but this may well be a mistake on libarchive/Ubuntu side as well.
> [snip]
> > Yes but this action was widening the compatibility.
> > pax_restricted --> gnutar may be narrowing it.
> 
> This was discussed here:
> 
>  http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=11958

Yes, this is very alike to what I see here.

> but many archive portability concerns were lifted by updating to a
> libarchive that included this:
> 
>  https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/de60ddd0

Still the SHILY.fflags were not handled ...

> The issue was resolved without changing formats by a fix suggested by
> a libarchive maintainer:
> 
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=e8558efa
> 
> If there are extended headers that dpkg doesn't support then we need
> to know why they appear in the first place and which ones can be
> cleared.
> 
> -Brad

OK.

	Kornel
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