[cmake-developers] A few topic reviews for Stephen

[Stephen Kelly]

Brad King wrote:

>>  http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=157289612&build=2905507
> 
> I'm not sure what caused that failure, but according to local testing
> on my VS 6 the failure we now see is caused by (according to git bisect)
> the language-generator-expressions topic.  I've merged join-genex but
> you'll have to look into the failure further.

Interesting. Nothing in that patch jumps out to me as the cause.

> Meanwhile I've discovered we let a failure leak into master.  The
> fix-include_directories-whitespace-handling topic:
> 
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=2f84dfec
> 
> adds "empty.cpp" with content "// No content".  That fails on the
> AIX linker:
> 
>  http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=191427253&build=2912836
>  http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=191412829&build=2912721
>  Linking CXX shared library libempty_entry_test.so
>  ld: 0711-244 ERROR: No csects or exported symbols have been saved.
> 
> Does the file need to be empty of symbols for this test?

Nope, we can add some symbol to the file. What's the simplest thing we can 
add?

Thanks,

Steve.