[CMake] CMake 2.8.0 RC 4 ready for testing!

[Bill Hoffman]

CMake 2.8.0 RC 4 is now ready for people to try.
You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/.

Here are the changes for the 2.8.0 branch so far:
Changes in CMake 2.8.0 RC 4
- Fix try_compile when file cannot be found
- Add new module to test manifest installation issues on windows.
- Add more test coverage
- Improvements in finding MPI on windows. ENH: reorganized searching mpi 
for mpi components (include,lib,bin) using a single set of search paths 
instead of seperately mainted lists of paths for each.
- Look for nvcc in the 32 bit bin directory before the 64 bin directory.
- BUG: hardcord some values so output matches cmVS10CLFlagTable.h 
(addresses bug #9753)
- Avoid Intel linker crash in BuildDepends test
- Fix Intel Fortran SHARED libraries on Linux
- Fix working dir issue for ctest
- Fix if() command and CMP0012 OLD/NEW behavior
- Allow for /D to change install directory on the command line for NSIS
- Move SetErrorMode around calls to generate and configure instead of 
setting it for the whole application for cmake-gui on windows.  Allows 
for bad installs of windows shell programs to not break file completion.
- Fix Intel and MinGW Fortran DLL import libraries
- Fix Xcode dylib version default
- Fix the showing of non-cpp files in the IDE for VS 10
- Fix optionally-valued booleans in VS 10 flag table
- Detect and set Unicode character set in VS 10
- Add support for the g95 Fortran compiler
- Test all target types in Fortran
- Add Xcode file association for Fortran
- Fix VS 10 flag table for precompiled headers
- Fix VS 10 .sln files for Windows Explorer
- Fix Microsoft.Cpp.$(Platform).user.props in VS10b2
- Fix up file(DOWNLOAD ) a bit, better error checking and uses of long 
not double for timeout as curl needs, bug# 9748
- Add a VS 10 Win64 generator
- Fix for bug#9686 convert java_home to a cmake path before using.
- fix for bug# 9751, add check for MSVC10
- Fix for bugs #9756, #9690 and #9755, header files were not included, 
and link_directories we incorrect
- Add a module to test an install tree to verify that the MS CRT version 
is correct (cmake -P CMakeVerifyManifest.cmake)
- Fix seg fault for empty ENV{} call bug #9747
- Better fix for finding the MSBuild that matches the VS 10 install.
- make testing the CodeBlocks and Eclipse generators easier by not 
requiring the CMAKE_EDIT_COMMAND variable
- Do not link library dependencies in VS solutions
- Ctest was broken for subdirs.  Restored working directory state for 
tests so that their executables could be found.
- Fixes version detection using osg/Version on Mac OSX when OSG is 
installed as a framework
- Avoid C++ linker language in VS Fortran project
- Avoid duplicate ZERO_CHECK in VS solutions
- Fixed bug 8319, search for the Python shared library in the standard 
locations.
- Fix bug#9714, should not crash when version file is not where it 
should be...
- Fix ctest output alignment for cases where total tests run is not the 
same width as max test index.
- make it more robust wrt. #9621
- Add another possible error message that curl might emit with an empty 
drop location.
- Fix issue #5668 - use CollapseFullPath when determining if covered 
file is within source or binary tree. Allows gcc/gcov coverage analysis 
using MinGW on Windows.
- CTest-side support for compiler name and compiler version information. 
  Requires CDash update to show on CDash.
- Add a bunch more testing coverage.

Changes in CMake 2.8.0 RC 3
- CTest Added OS Platform (cpu architecture) detection support to
windows system
- Several minor FindBoost changes to address posts on mailing list
- Resolve #9685: Fix include dir to be correct path for gnutils
- Fix color check for dependency scanning
- Remove CMP00015 for now as it breaks more things than it fixes
- Reduce duration of ctest_sleep arguments. Add SmallAndFast project.
Replace kwsys with SmallAndFast to make CTestTest faster. (I will keep
an eye on coverage results after this commit and make sure we still have
equivalent ctest coverage.)
- Do not use -fPIC to link executables
- Split Borland compiler information files
- Trimmed off the newline from sw_vers output on mac, it could cause xml
parsing errors if left in
- Check for openssl-linked option with Qt 4.4+ before making ssl a
dependency.
- Make Complex test of CMakeLib more optional
- Modernize FindVTK module
- Fix find_package() when <pkg>_DIR is wrong
- Do not collapse path of NOTFOUND values
- More robust implicit link line detection regex
- fix Xcode 30 generator
- Use the correct CMake (the freshly built one) to drive the
CMakeWizardTest.
- Support more special characters in file(STRINGS)
- Log implicit link line detection regex
- speedup C dependency scanning even more
- Avoid non-root copies of root-only targets
- Added better OS information for Mac OS X
- Use work-around from bug 4772 for C++ and Fortran
- FortranCInterface: Mangling for Intel on Windows
- cmake-gui don't allow consecutive generates without a configure.
- Fix Preprocess test for Intel on Windows
- Teach intel compiler on windows to place .lib files and .pdb files.
- CPack: Fix bash-isms in launch script
- BUG: #0009648 Change "The following tests FAILED" message to print on
stdout rather than stderr
- Avoid (Unix|Windows)Paths.cmake multiple include
- When getting include dirs for moc, also watch for framework includes
and use -F instead of -I.
- Find locally installed software first
- Add '#!/bin/sh' to cygwin-package.sh
- Fix permsissions of installed SquishRunTestCase.sh
- Fix module docs to be manpage (groff) friendly
- Support GNU/kFreeBSD
- Remove old Encoding field from CMake.desktop
- FindQt3: Prefer (moc|uic)-qt3 names over (moc|uic)
- Match width of ctest "Start xx: " line to line up with the end test line
- Remove old license from FindPkgConfig.cmake module
- Test target link information invalidation
- Invalidate target link info when necessary
- Use new style header generation and get rid of OBJECT_DEPENDS in tutorial
- Fix issue #8649 - move the location of
CPACK_NSIS_EXTRA_INSTALL_COMMANDS so that it is not excluded from
execution when 'Do not create shortcuts' is checked.
- add the additional features for the dbus macros from KDE's FindQt4.cmake
fc9f7a5 Fix warnings in CMake source code.
- Correct some typos in error messages in the string command. Add a test
that covers more of the code implemented in cmStringCommand.cxx,
especially the error handlers.
- Create INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION build feature
- Document CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE more precisely
- Fix the documentation to say what it really does. Bug #9638
- document how the minimum version can be specified
- Fix warnings in CMake source code. Suppress rampant warnings emanating
from Qt files.
- Add documentation for Cocoa flag and move Motif under X11 flag.

Changes in CMake 2.8.0 RC 2
- Fix FindQt4 so that QtHelp depends on QtNetwork
- Add missing copyright notice to CMake.cmake module
- Add alternative _UTILITY targets to all VS solutions
- FindGTest.cmake some bugfixes, also added public function for closer
integration btwn GoogleTest & CTest, contributed by Dan Blezek.
- Eliminate ExternalProject's use of CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR subdir for
Makefile generators. It was causing problems with parallel make -j
invocations. Keep it for multi-configuration build systems so that Debug
and Release stamp files remain separate.
- Fix for bug #9611, some more paths for OpenJDK.
- Fix get_filename_component() registry view with wow64
- Fix warnings in CMake source code.
- Fix module definition file reference for VS6 NMake
- Fix for bug #9611 do not hard code archs for search paths of java,
look at the machine type.
- Fix bug#9619 add a link to module maintainers page in readme.txt for
Modules
- Add cmake-help-command function to emacs-mode
- Add initial XL C compiler flags for safer builds
- Split XL compiler information files
- Fix default install prefix on Haiku
- Fix use of module .def files for MS tools
- Add StringProperty options includeing /def: for VS 10 flag table
- Convert copyright to OSI BSD and clean up licenses
- ENH: Added ctest test coverage for a test timeout
- CTest honors test timeouts again.
- Remove ctest_submit from CTestTestParallel
- Fix shared library creation flag for XL on Linux
- Fix BUG: 0009612: --output-on-failure option doesn't work with
   the new parallel CTest handler
- Removed support for cutil library and header file.
- Fixed CUDA_PROPAGATE_HOST_FLAGS, added path for Mac SDK.
- Make sure LINK_FLAGS are seen by generator, fix for part of bug#9613
- Fix issue #9412 - remove RPATH from files copied by
   BundleUtilities.cmake on Linux. Thank
- Fix support for OLD behavior of policy CMP0002
- Fix issue #8818 - escape quotes in the license file when using the
   DragNDrop cpack genera
- Fix .vfproj file version for Intel Fortran 10.1
- Use BeAPI for per-user package registry on Haiku
- Correct comments and use ASM${ASM_DIALECT} env. var instead of ASM
   env. var to initialize
- Fix bug #9529.
- Fix Windows GUI implib and image version in VS 6
- Convert newlines from CRLF to LF
- Oops. Last commit did not create subdir before doing a touch on a
   file in it. So it fails of a type that is expected to have a
   location...
- Policies 14 and 15 will be first released in 2.8.0
- Document full version number with policy default
- Simplify bootstrap script source dir detection
- Documentation fixes, new CUDA_PROPAGATE_HOST_FLAGS, changed output
   directory.

Changes in CMake 2.8.0 RC 1

- Qt based GUI cmake-gui is now the default GUI, MFC CMakeSetup is no
   longer included in CMake.  ccmake is still supported.
- cmake-gui supports multi-state values options.
- CMake now has cmake --build command that can build any CMake generated
   project from the command line.
- Visual Studio 2010 beta support has been added.
- KDevelop generator now has color output for builds.
- CTest supports running tests in parallel with a -j N option.
- A new CTest CTEST_USE_LAUNCHERS option can be used to get better
   dashboard error reports with make based tools.
- CTest has support for sub-projects and labels which can interact
   with CDash.
- CTest now supports Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar.
- It is now possible to use DESTDIR in CPack for any CMake based projects
   giving more flexibility on the final path names.
- The CPack Deb generator now computes the arch instead of hard coding it.
- Fortran/C mixed language projects made much easier. CMake now
   automatically can compute the run time libraries for a compiler. In
   addition, a new FortranCInterface module can determine the correct
   name mangling needed to mix C and Fortran.
- Intel compiler support added to OSX, and support for embedded
   manifests in the windows intel compiler was added.
- Depend scanning is now much faster with makefiles.
- Many FindQt4 improvements to stay working with current Qt releases
- FindMPI has improvements for windows.
- FindBoost has been updated to work with the most recent boost releases.
- New External Project Module.  The 'ExternalProject_Add' function
   creates a custom target to drive download, update/patch, configure,
   build, install and test steps of an external project.
- xmlrpc dependancy has been removed
- CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET cache variable has been created to set the
   deployment OS for a build on OSX.
- Several new policies were added:
   CMP0012
        The if() command can recognize named boolean constants.
   CMP0013
        Duplicate binary directories are not allowed.
   CMP0014
        Input directories must have CMakeLists.txt.
   CMP0015
        The set() CACHE mode and option() command make the cache value
        visible.
- Lots of bug fixes.