[cmake-developers] [UseSWIG] regression in results from CMake-3.0.2 to recent versions --SOLVED

[Rolf Eike Beer]

> The somewhat longer story is just at the start (fortunately for me) of
> that simplification process, I double checked the source of both
> FindSWIG.cmake and UseSWIG.cmake as used by PLplot, and those turned
> out to be special cutting-edge versions recommended by one user of the
> cmake bug tracking system from a decade (!) ago.  Oops!  Those
> versions did continue to work for a very long time for our simple swig
> needs, but those are obviously well past their "best buy" date, and
> complete removal of those "special" versions from PLplot (so PLplot is
> now using the official version of those modules that is distributed by
> whatever CMake version a user chooses) works without the warning
> messages for both CMake-3.0.2 AND CMake-3.8.0-rc4.

So something in that range of versions has broken those old modules. It would 
be interesting to find out if that was breaking a never-really-supported case 
or something else.

Eike
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