[cmake-developers] [CMake 0013561]: CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAGS is totally broken under newer version of Visual Studio

[Mantis Bug Tracker]

The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
====================================================================== 
http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=13561 
====================================================================== 
Reported By:                icando
Assigned To:                
====================================================================== 
Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   13561
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   high
Status:                     new
====================================================================== 
Date Submitted:             2012-09-28 02:17 EDT
Last Modified:              2012-09-28 02:17 EDT
====================================================================== 
Summary:                    CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAGS is totally broken under
newer version of Visual Studio
Description: 
On Windows platform, by default, CMake will add /INCREMENTAL:YES to the linker
flag.  This will trigger warning messages by the linker of MSVC, and
CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAGS will think the compiler doesn't accept the flag.  So
basically, CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAGS will just return FAlSE for any flag, valid
or invalid.  Any scripts that relies on this check will just broken.

Steps to Reproduce: 
Just use any valid flag in CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAGS on Windows platform and
Visual Studio 2012.  Earlier versions might also be broken because when I was
searching in Google, I just found some people complaining about it for Visual
Studio 2010 as well.
====================================================================== 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
====================================================================== 
2012-09-28 02:17 icando         New Issue                                    
======================================================================