[cmake-developers] Minor regression in --version results for CMake 2.8.12.1 (A FALSE ALARM)

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2013-12-04 23:36-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> <OFF TOPIC>

> What happened today was I built cmake-2.8.12.1 and installed it high
> on the existing PATH without changing that PATH. So the cache was
> stale and still pointed to 2.8.12 despite the "which cmake" result
> (pointing to cmake-2.8.12.1) which gave me the (false) confidence to
> report what turned out to be a false alarm above. Later when I changed
> the PATH, it turned out that bash took that as a signal to empty the
> cache of the stale results, and after that cmake-2.8.12.1 was found
> because it was higher on the PATH than 2.8.12. And that version
> definitely produces the correct version string, "cmake version 2.8.12.1".

Ugh. that gave the wrong impression.  What I should have said was

.... Later when I changed the PATH (with cmake-2.8.12.1 higher on the
PATH than cmake-2.8.12 for _both_ the old and new PATH), it turned out
that bash took that as a signal to flush the cache of the stale
results, and that cache flush and not any PATH change finally allowed
bash to find cmake-2.8.12.1.

> </OFF TOPIC>

Alan
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