[cmake-developers] CMake server-mode aborting

[Nils Gladitz]

On 01/26/2017 10:45 AM, Tobias Hunger wrote:

> Hello CMake developers,
>
> I have been using Qt Creator extensively with cmake server-mode for a
> while now and am very happy with the results so far. Once the project
> is initially configured by cmake it is really nice.
>
> Today I started to look into a bug report that creator behaves
> horribly when not all the dependencies of a project are available. In
> that case the UI behaves entirely wrong (I just pushed a patch to
> improve that on the Creator side into code review).
>
> The root cause seems to be that during configure run CMake just
> vanishes. Creator reports back that it crashed. I can unfortunately
> not reproduce that problem with any of the CMakeLists.txt files I have
> handy, so I am a bit lost at what to do.
>
> Does any of you cmake experts have an idea what might go wrong? I
> thought that maybe a MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR ...) is triggered, causing
> cmake server to terminate or something similar. Unfortunately that
> does not seem to trigger the server to die for me:-/

I haven't really looked into server mode yet but for something that 
should crash cmake (server or otherwise):

     function(foo)
         foo()
     endfunction()

     foo()

Nils