[cmake-developers] C++11 and target_compiler_feature proposal

Stephen Kelly steveire at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 17:59:22 EDT 2013


Brad King wrote:

> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER is always set to the proper full path these days,
> even in the IDE generators, so I wonder if we could actually run it
> against the header file to detect the features available for the
> current compiler instead of hard-coding a table in the platform
> information files.  Then the checks would all be done in one place
> via the preprocessor and __has_feature if available.

I've implemented this and merged it to next for dashboard testing. I haven't 
yet looked into how to create docs for the new WriteCompilerDetectionHeader 
module.

Thanks,

Steve.





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