[cmake-developers] [PATCH] Add --no-install-deps to bootstrapping procedure

Ray Donnelly mingw.android at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 14:44:56 EDT 2015


On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 08/05/2015 11:16 AM, Ray Donnelly wrote:
>> MSYS2 uses Pacman to manage package dependencies so without this
>> patch, our mingw-w64-cmake-git package ends up bundling all the DLLs
>> it depends on which causes conflicts with the packages those DLLs
>> really belong to.
>
> I don't think we should require an explicit option for this and
> should instead just not install runtime dependencies by default.
> They are needed only when packaging binaries for independent
> redistribution.  Try this:
>
>  Do not install 3rd-party dependencies by default
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=26f5445b
>

That works for me. Many thanks Brad.

> Thanks,
> -Brad
>


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