[cmake-developers] cmake --help-policy CMP0057 MAIN_DEPENDENCY

[Nils Gladitz]

On 04/27/2015 03:31 PM, Brad King wrote:
> The policy was added to diagnose some previously-broken cases earlier.
> We technically never supported duplicate MAIN_DEPENDENCY specification
> but did not diagnose it.  Instead it could produce bad builds in some
> cases IIRC.
>
> Nils, do you remember where this came up?

I think I covered this in:
   http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15525#c38598

Issues I know of (two of which I reported; including the above) are:
   http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=14550
   http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15434
   http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15525

Nils