[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015937]: ccmake no longer permits setting CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER and no longer finds ccache

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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https://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=15937 
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Reported By:                Michi Henning
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15937
Category:                   CCMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2016-01-28 02:29 EST
Last Modified:              2016-01-28 02:29 EST
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Summary:                    ccmake no longer permits setting CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER
and no longer finds ccache
Description: 
I have ccache in my path as the first directory. With older versions of cmake, I
could run "ccmake .." and it would find and set the C and C++ compiler according
to what was in my path, meaning that the ccache version of the compiler was
found automatically.

With the current version of cmake/ccmake, this no longer works.
/usr/lib/ccache/cc and /usr/lib/ccache/c++ are no longer detected as the
compilers, and it appears to be impossible to change which compiler is used from
ccmake.

This is also annoying because, previously, I could easily switch between gcc and
clang via ccmake, by simply changing the CMAKE_C_COMPILER and CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER
settings. But now, these settings are no longer shown.

Could you restore the previous functionality please? Having to endlessly change
this from the command line is really tedious.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2016-01-28 02:29 Michi Henning  New Issue                                    
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