[CMake] CMake 2.8.1 RC 4 is ready to try

[Micha Renner]

Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 09:08 -0800 schrieb Alan W. Irwin:
> On 2010-03-06 17:02+0100 Eric Noulard wrote:
> 
> > 2010/3/6 Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>:
> >
> >>>>> Not really a show-stopper since I have no problem using this RC
> >>>>> but I do have a problem "Building it" on 2 linux boxes
> >>>>> (first is Ubuntu 9.10 and the other is Fedora 11) using gcc 4.4.1:
> >>>>
> >>>> I can confirm this for Ubuntu 9.10.
> >>>> In the appendix is the generated output.
> >>
> >> Reading your output, your problem is not the same as mine.
> >> You did bootstrap when I was using cmake 2.6.4 to compile 2.8.1.
> >
> > You should try to bootstrap out-of-source:
> >
> > cd /path/to/CMake
> > cd ..
> > mkdir build
> > cd build
> > ../CMake/bootstrap
> 
> Just to add some more data and opinion to this thread, I always bootstrap in
> a clean source tree (freshly downloaded from kitware) out of inertia. That
> procedure is how I started to build CMake years ago, and it has always
> worked.  In fact, that procedure worked just fine for cmake-2.8.1-rc3 on my
> Debian Lenny platform.  So I suspect Micha Renner didn't have a clean
> bootstrap=source tree or some issue like that.
No, it was clean. I downloaded the compressed file, unpacked, read
readme.txt and started bootstrap. That's all.


> 
> If there is no easy "clean-tree" solution to the issue found by Micha, then
> one rather wild possibility is cmake bootstrap might make configuration
> assumptions that are not compatible with the newer version of g++ which I
> assume Micha has installed on his Ubuntu-9.10 platform.  For what it is
> worth, my Debian Lenny g++ version is
> 
> g++ (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2
> 
> Ubuntu-9.10 may have a legacy gcc package that Micha could install that
> provides something nearer this version of g++ if using either a clean
> source=bootstrap tree or a clean out-of-source bootstrap tree does not work.
> 
> Alan
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