[CMake] cmake 2.6.2 RC 3

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri Sep 5 09:02:26 EDT 2008


I have a release candidate (RC 3) for 2.6.2 ready for CMake.

Thanks.

The files can be found here:

http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.6/*RC-3*

The changes from 2.6.2 are as follows:

Changes in CMake 2.6.2 RC 3
- Fix bug, and remove extra closing > in visual fortran projects.
- Fix bug in ctest -C where it was sometimes ignored.
- Fix crash with exec_process when cmake is being debugged on windows
- Fix unsetting of global properties

Changes in CMake 2.6.2 RC 2
- allow tool chains to limit object path length
- add info.plist to frameworks
- better preservation of user link lines
- add a get command for cmake policies
- support for imported libraries of unknown type
- support link interface in target_link_libraries
- Do not hang when select lies
- .m compiled with gcc and g++ on mac
- Fix issue when application bundle dir is removed cmake
   needs to re-run automatically
- Report an error when configure has one error
- Fix bug where -E commands stole command line options
- Fix infinite recursion bug with try-compile and change of compilers
- Fix delete and backspace in ccmake
- Fix coverage not to follow symlinks
- Add more possible languages for NSIS in cpack
- FindQt4.cmake fix bug #7433, add documentation that
   directories also can be specified to update the translation files.
- Add standard arg handling to FindPHP4.cmake
- Add X11R6 to search path for FindOpenGL
- update cmake-syntax.vim to have more keywords
- BUG: fix #7477, set VERBOSE=1 in the kdevelop setting for
   the environment, not together with the make executable
- UsePkgConfig.cmake - clean up, add a status message in case
   pkgconfig didn't find the package, sync with kde
- FindX11 look in more places
- FindTIFF look for more names
- FindQt3, make sure qt4 is not found and some style stuff
- FindPNG add more names of linpng (sync with the KDE version)
- FindKDE3/KDE4 sanity checks on qt versions found
- FindLibXMl2 also search for xmllint, which comes with libxml2
   (sync with FindLibXml2.cmake from KDE)
- Fix sizeof, and other compiler INFO string checks with
   GNU linker's --gc-sections
- Fix bogus dependency on executable targets when a linked library
   happended to match the name of an executable target
- Improve readability of circular depends error
- Fix crash on circular target dependencies
- find_package now knows about lib64 paths
- Fix gentoo elf security issue with RPATH and RUNPATH

Changes in CMake 2.6.2 RC 1
- Fix abort in eclipse generator with empty EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH
- Fix FindKDE3.cmake syntax error
- Fix custom command output by relative path not always working
- Fix bug, Do not convert RPATH entries to full path.
- Allow for "$ORIGIN" into the RPATH>
- Allow for static libraries with lots of objects using archive append
- Fix documentation for FindImageMagick.cmake
- Fix link error with MS compiler and comdef
- Fix crash when attempting to load the RPATH out of a non-ELF file
- Add --trace option to cmake allowing for the tracing of a cmake run
- Fix for issue #4971 where the case of the drive letter component of
   the filenames might be different when analyzing gcov output.
- Add warning level W0 to visual studio
- Add support for OSX library version flags


-- 
Bill Hoffman
Kitware, Inc.
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bill.hoffman at kitware.com
http://www.kitware.com
518-371-3971 (phone and fax)


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