[CMake] CMake 2.8.3-rc3 ready for testing!

[David Cole]

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On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:04 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> The CMake 2.8.3 release candidate stream continues!
> You can find the source and binaries here:
> http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D
>
> This will be the last release candidate for 2.8.3
> unless a major regression is reported. So please
> try it on your projects and let us know right away
> about any problems.
>
> Since we switched to git, and a new workflow, we're
> expecting to do more frequent releases. Because of
> that, our release candidate phases will be shorter
> than they have been historically. So, if you want to
> test this out and ask for a fix, do it soon, or hold your
> peace till the next release!
>
> Following is the list of changes in this release.
> Since we switched to git, this list is now the
> 'git log' one line summary written by the named
> CMake developers.
>
> Please try this version of CMake on your projects
> and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker.
>
> Happy building!
>
> -Dave
>
> Changes in CMake 2.8.3-rc3 (since 2.8.3-rc2)
> --------------------------------------------
> Alex Neundorf (4):
>       Remove trailing whitespace
>       Add automatic variable CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR(dir of
> CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE)
>       Use absolute path to FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake everywhere
>       CodeBlocks Generator: Do not omit files in the project file listing.
>
> Brad King (4):
>       VS10: Order .vcxproj dependencies deterministically (#10502)
>       Document ENABLE_EXPORTS behavior on Mac (#11295)
>       FindHDF5: Fix typo in parallel-IO support check (#11291)
>       Xcode: Recognize .hh as C++ (#11307)
>
> Clinton Stimpson (1):
>       Find imports dir in Qt 4.7
>
> David Partyka (1):
>       Update module to locate newely released MS MPI HPC Pack R2.
>
> Philip Lowman (1):
>       Remove superfluous variable Boost_COMPAT_STATIC_RUNTIME.
>
> Rolf Eike Beer (2):
>       FindSubversion: Fix for German localized client (#11273)
>       FindSubversion: Use C locale to detect version (#11273)
>
> Changes in CMake 2.8.3-rc2 (since 2.8.3-rc1)
> --------------------------------------------
> Alex Neundorf (5):
>       APPEND and not-APPEND mode of feature_summary() were swapped
>       Set a default DESCRIPTION if none is given for ALL mode of
> feature_summary()
>       Close ENDFUNCTION() properly with the same name as FUNCTION()
>       Make cmake-gui remember whether the "Advanced" checkbox was checked or
> not
>       Also store the required version number in the details message.
> Ben Boeckel (3):
>       Add test that CMake errors with empty libs
>       Fix which string is checked for in the test
>       XCode generation should fail if lang isn't known
> Bill Hoffman (5):
>       Fix the name of the variable being tested.
>       Fix KWStyle line length issues.
>       Add a delay after untar on windows to make external project work on
> windows 7
>       Add a new line to the end of the generated main.cxx for the hpux
> compiler.
>       Fix for bug #11274, VS10 custom commands that create files in INTDIR
> fix.
> Brad King (12):
>       Evaluate <OBJECT_DIR> rule variable for executables
>       ccmake: Fix search with '/'
>       MinGW: Support long object file lists
>       Document IMPORTED_NO_SONAME target property
>       FindMPI: Recoginze -f flags from mpicc (#10771)
>       Add module-dir flag for Compaq Visual Fortran (#11248)
>       FindPythonInterp: Look for python2.7 interpreter
>       VS10: Use $(IntDir) for per-source output directory (#11270)
>       Reset platform/compiler info status for each language
>       Remove trailing whitespace from Xcode generator source
>       VS10: Skip targets with no linker language (#11230)
>       VS10: Encode custom command comments for echo (#11283)
> Clinton Stimpson (1):
>       Fix regression in cross-compile patches with finding Qt libs.
> David Cole (7):
>       Enable calling commands with : in argv[1] (#9963)
>       No extra spaces in CustomCommand test (#9963)
>       Avoid CustomCommand test failure on VS71 (#9963)
>       Update release scripts.
>       Avoid CustomCommand test failure on VS71 (#9963)
>       Honor MAKECOMMAND value saved in cache (#11026)
>       New USE_FOLDERS property OFF by default. (#3796)
> David Gobbi (1):
>       Set the module prefix, updated Windows suffix.
> Eric NOULARD (2):
>       InstallGen/CPack  fix handling absolute installed file regression
>       CPackRPM  Handle parenthesis in CPACK_SYSTEM_NAME (fix bug 10737)
> James Bigler (2):
>       Fix for bug 0011263.
>       Allow -g3 for CUDA v3.0+.
> Mikkel Krautz (2):
>       Xcode: Avoid trailing space in ARCHS list (#11244)
>       Xcode: Quote string values containing '$' (#11244)
> Philip Lowman (12):
>       FindBoost.cmake fixes for issues 11204 & 8529
>       FindBoost.cmake: Miscellaneous changes and refactoring
>       FindBoost.cmake: Add Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS option
>       FindBoost.cmake: Fix compiling against a boost source tree
>       FindBoost.cmake: Fixes 11246
>       FindBoost.cmake: Fixes 11121
>       FindBoost.cmake: Fixes 10436
>       FindBoost.cmake: Implements 11160
>       Fix 11136: [patch] FindThreads.cmake documents the wrong variable
>       FindBoost.cmake: Fix library search path glitch introduced in earlier
> commit
>       FindFLEX.cmake: Fix issue 11249
>       Fixes issue 11279: CMakeDetermineVSServicePack support for VS10
> Yaakov Selkowitz (2):
>       FindFLTK*: Use Cygwin fltk on Cygwin (#11290)
>       Use 'uname -m' for processor on Cygwin (#10774)
> Changes in CMake 2.8.3-rc1 (since 2.8.2)
> ----------------------------------------
> Alex Neundorf (39):
>       fix build on SUSE 11.2 in cmcurl due to ssize_t
>       -add an additional name for finding libtiff on Windows
>       -fix typo in docs of deprecated MacroAddFileDependencies.cmake
>       add 2nd, more powerful mode to find_package_handle_standard_args()
>       -fix indentation of the documentation
>       Add version checking support to FindFlex and FindPerlLibs
>       FindSquish doesn't detect the version, remove that from the
> documentation
>       Improved version checking for FindRuby using the new mode of FPHSA()
>       Improved version checking for FindJava using the new FPHSA() mode
>       Fix DETAILS string with version number in FHPSA()
>       Improved version checking for FindSubversion using the new mode of
> FPHSA()
>       Improved version checking for FindCUDA using the new mode of FPHSA
>       Use FPHSA() in FindSWIG, including version checking.
>       Change documentation of Subversion_FOUND and SUBVERSION_FOUND.
>       Add macro CMakeParseArguments() and use it in FPHSA()
>       Fix ZLIB version parsing if no TWEAK version exists
>       Fix EclipseCDT include path parsing with spaces (#10868)
>       Fix EclipseCDT parsing of builtin macros with spaces (#10868)
>       Remove trailing spaces
>       Detect a COMPILER_ID also for ASM.
>       Add timeout to execute_process() in CMAKE_DETERMINE_COMPILER_ID().
>       Fix parsing of builtin macros so Eclipse handles them properly
> (#10868)
>       Log the required package version and major improvement to
> FeatureSummary
>       Improve documentation.
>       Improve wording of the documentation.
>       Add macro ADD_FEATURE_INFO() and improve docs.
>       Remove trailing whitespace
>       Make target_link_libraries() complain if bad target name is used
>       Just warn in case of a bad target as only argument for t_l_l()
>       Remove trailing whitespace
>       New CMP0016 for deciding whether an unknown target in TLL() is an
> error.
>       Record all considered Config files and their versions.
>       Improve error message in Config-mode when no appropriate version was
> found
>       Replace the two vector<string,string> with one
> vector<struct{string,string}>
>       Small cleanup of FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake
>       Don't create an empty element at the end of
> Foo_CONSIDERED_CONFIGS/VERSIONS
>       Add option CONFIG_MODE to FPHSA()
>       Improve version notice in the generated message
>       Improve wording of the error message of find_package() in config-mode
> Andrew Maclean (3):
>       Adding a FindPostgreSQL.cmake module
>       Forgot the copyright notice.
>       Changed ADDITIONAL_SEARCH_PATHS to PostgreSQL_ADDITIONAL_SEARCH_PATHS.
> Arjen Verweij (1):
>       Pass objects to Intel linker using a response file
> Bill Hoffman (9):
>       Disable gcc 33 on OpenBSD because it crashes CPack by default.
>       Fix for bug#10483, INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_MSPROJECT: ProjectGUID now
> ProjectGuid
>       Remove the ctest submit larget output test.
>       Let CMake recognize .CPP .CXX and .C++ as c++ files.
>       Fix for bug 10388, fix various default flags.
>       Only use .CPP .CXX and .C++ do not work by default with g+++.
>       Fix targets with . in the name for VS 10 IDE.
>       Only test for .CPP on Microsoft compilers which will handle .CPP as
> c++.
>       Allow testing of .CPP on WIN32 as it is a case insensitive OS and
> should work.
> Brad King (69):
>       ExternalProject: Add LOG_* options to hide step output
>       FindMPI: Do not parse -l in middle of library name
>       FindMPI: Parse mpicc flags more carefully (#9093)
>       Fix or cast integer conversions in cmake
>       Begin post-2.8.2 development
>       FindMPI: Failure is not an error if not REQUIRED
>       FindMPI: Trust mpicc -showme on BlueGene/L
>       VS: Always separate preprocessor defs by semicolon (#10902)
>       KWSys: Cleanup putenv leak option implementation
>       KWSys: Pass ptrdiff_t check result to System.c
>       Fix or cast more integer conversions in cmake
>       Use same type in both cases of '?:' operator
>       FindMPI: Fix parsing of mpicc -Wl,-L link flags (#9093)
>       Fix signed/unsigned comparison warnings in ccmake
>       Fix integer conversions in cpack
>       bootstrap: Detect known C/C++ compiler toolchains
>       KWSys: Use short fallback timeout for Process tests
>       KWSys: Optionally suppress consistent test failures
>       KWSys: Avoid Clang optimizer bug in testProcess-[45]
>       Poison GCC 3.3 on OpenBSD a bit later
>       KWSys: Avoid undefined behavior in Process crash tests
>       Optionally use system bzip2 library (#10932)
>       ctest_update: Abort if Git FETCH_HEAD has no candidates
>       ctest_update: Support ".git file" work trees
>       ctest_update: Run 'git submodule' at top level
>       FindBoost: Search for Boost 1.42
>       Add FindLibArchive module (#10923)
>       Add option CMAKE_USE_SYSTEM_LIBARCHIVE (#10923)
>       Refer to self with CMake_(SOURCE|BINARY)_DIR (#10046)
>       ExternalProject: Fix $(MAKE) with cygpath on Windows
>       FindBoost: Search for Boost 1.43 and 1.44
>       Include headers from chosen libarchive (#10923)
>       No response files with GNU ld <= 2.16 (#10913)
>       Create class cmArchiveWrite to wrap libarchive (#11020)
>       Include entries for directories in tarballs (#11020)
>       cmArchiveWrite: Fix signed/unsigned compare/convert
>       cmArchiveWrite: Fix signed/unsigned again
>       CPack: Avoid member shadowing after API refactor
>       KWSys: Fix SplitPath for leading '\' on Windows
>       KWSys: Fix GetActualCaseForPath for UNC paths
>       ModuleNoticesTest: Do not require "Kitware" copyright
>       Modules: Fix CMakeParseArguments copyright notice
>       FortranCInterface: Fix doc typo FC.h -> FCMangle.h
>       CTest: Avoid use of old EscapeSpaces method
>       Remove cmSystemTools::EscapeSpaces method
>       Clarify install(TARGETS) docs for EXPORT option
>       Factor out global generator ComputeTargetDepends method
>       Factor out duplicate VS target dependency code
>       Refactor VS <= 7.1 utility-depends workaround
>       Restore GetTargetDirectDepends const return
>       Split notion of node lists and edge lists
>       Distinguish "strong" and "weak" target dependency edges
>       Honor strong intra-component target dependencies
>       libarchive: Remove SCHILY dev,ino,nlink attributes (#11176)
>       Fix unused parameter warning in VS 7.1 generator
>       KWSys: Avoid empty string dereference in SplitString
>       KWSys: Improve SplitPath method documentation
>       KWSys: Use SplitPath in GetActualCaseForPath
>       Add whitespace=tab-in-indent attribute for sources
>       Search MacPorts /opt/local prefix on Mac
>       HP-UX: Always add /usr/lib to rpath (#10571)
>       No CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES in single-config generators (#10202)
>       KWSys: Suppress -Wcast-align warning in MD5.c
>       Suppress -Wcast-align in curl and bzip2
>       libarchive: Fix purposeful crash
>       bootstrap: Honor CFLAGS during "make" test (#10545)
>       file(DOWNLOAD): Fix error message formatting
>       Fix line-too-long style errors
>       Report missing source files with context of target
> Clinton Stimpson (10):
>       Fix performance issue with getting version from zlib.h
>       Fix bug 10418 - GetPrerequisites returning "not" as a dependency.
>       Fix regression in 5e6634fd77969433a87c150a2fb3f2079131484f for
> Windows.
>       Change Qt4ConfigDependentSettings to use more standard find modules.
>       Add cross-compiling support to FindQt4.cmake
>       Tweak for cygwin, don't convert : to ;
>       Fix some issues with refinding when qmake executable is changed.
>       Find correct Qt plugins for cross-compiling.
>       Fix mingw/VS warning message with cross compile re-org.
>       Make sure moc parameters file goes in binary directory.
> David Cole (20):
>       CheckSourceTree test: read UpdateCommand from Update.xml.
>       Eliminate -Wconversion warnings.
>       Detect CMake warnings and errors in build output.
>       Activate retry code on any curl submit failure.
>       Add another expected output for the failed submit tests.
>       ExternalProject: Use $(MAKE) whenever possible.
>       Copy Resources in Frameworks during fixup_bundle (#10020)
>       Update path to git. dashmacmini2 was "upgraded."
>       ExternalProject: Remove 'unknown keyword' warning (#11034)
>       Add documentation for CPACK_PROJECT_CONFIG_FILE.
>       Add STEP_TARGETS to ExternalProject module.
>       Refine formatting for cmake --help-module output.
>       Improve documentation of OPTION command.
>       Add FOLDER target property, for IDEs (#3796)
>       Avoid adding self as prerequisite. (#10417)
>       Correct CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX value for Win64 apps (#9992)
>       Preserve timestamps on files on tar extract.
>       Use QUIET to avoid Java status messages.
>       VS2010: Honor PROJECT_LABEL target property (#10611)
>       VS2010: Set IntDir for utility and global targets.
> David Genest (1):
>       Honor CMAKE_USER_MAKE_RULES_OVERRIDE in try_compile (#10902)
> Eric NOULARD (20):
>       CPackRPM:: Replace - with _ in RPM Version (fix bug 0010934)
>       Provides default changelog if no file is provided
>       CPackRPM:: Quote every filenames in %file section (see bugs
> 10701,10871,10345)
>       CPackRPM:: [partially] support relocatable package
>       CPackDEB:  merge wrong installed size patch. see bugs 10296 (and
> 10292)
>       CPackDeb  optionally generates auto-dependency list part fix of bug
> 10292
>       Proposal for bash-completion support file
>       CPack: Refactor API in order to handle multi-file packages
>       CPack: Avoid member shadowing after API refactor (part2)
>       Improve cmake-completion (install doc, ctest -R completion)
>       Add ZIP archive format and LZMA compress support to libarchive-wrapper
>       Add XZ compress support to libarchive-wrapper
>       Add Compress compress support to libarchive-wrapper
>       CPack   Backward-compatibly enforce DESTDIR for DEB and RPM
>       CPack   Enable better handling of absolute installed files
>       CPackArchiveGenerator  use cmArchiveWrite wrapper
>       CPackArchiveGenerator  add component supports
>       CPackArchiveGenerator improve usability and robustness
>       CPack fix broken compilation for CygwinSource generator
>       CPack  handle symlinks in CPACK_INSTALLED_DIRECTORIES fix for bug5430
> James Bigler (1):
>       Added CUDA 3.2 directory changes.  Disable emulation mode for CUDA
> 3.1+.
> Kai Wasserbäch (1):
>       Fix spelling errors reported by Lintian.
> Kovarththanan Rajaratnam (4):
>       FindZLIB: optimize zlib.h version parsing
>       FindCygwin: add new registry entry for Cygwin 1.7 (#10951)
>       FindZLIB: use the FPHSA version mode
>       FindSubversion: set compatibility variables based on FPHSA()
> Marcel Loose (1):
>       Issue 10199: Fixed code documentation and now set <prefix>_WC_ROOT
> Marcus D. Hanwell (1):
>       Bug with default library type of Python modules.
> Mathieu Malaterre (3):
>       Add missing PATHS to find_path commands to fix openssl searching
>       BUG: 0009611 Fix Arch independent FindJNI.cmake on Linux
>       Fix 11035 : debug/release library configuration mistake
> Michael Wild (2):
>       Improve documentation of BundleUtilities.cmake
>       Improve documentation of GetPrerequisites.cmake
> Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva (7):
>       ENH: #9775 Added support for new wxWidgets 2.9 libraries.
>       BUG: #9775 Fixed patch FindwxWidgets-fixed-bug-9775.
>       BUG #10658: FindwxWidgets USE_FILE should not include .cmake
> extension.
>       STYLE: Clarified/Fixed documentation of UsewxWidgets.
>       BUG #11123: Generic include dir should come after config specific one.
>       BUG #8184: Fixed FindwxWidgets wrong order of default libs for MinGW.
>       ENH #8993: FindwxWidgets add support for wx-config custom options.
> Mike McQuaid (1):
>       Make bundle items writable before fixup (#9284)
> Modestas Vainius (1):
>       CTestTestFailedSubmit-xmlrpc: Pass with "Submission problem"
> Patrick Gansterer (4):
>       VS: Convert PlatformName member to a virtual method
>       VS: Add more TargetMachine option values
>       VS: Map /ENTRY linker option to EntryPointSymbol
>       VS: Add ArchitectureId to VS 8 and 9 generators
> Philip Lowman (7):
>       Fixes problem finding libraries under Boost (#9510)
>       Add detection for new pangommconfig.h header file
>       Several fixes needed to improve Windows support
>       11041: Improve FindCxxTest to use Python or Perl automatically; custom
> flags
>       10241: FindBISON.cmake clears wrong variable
>       10688: FindGTK2.cmake doesn't auto-detect macports
>       Merge patch for detecting gdk-pixbuf library
> Pino Toscano (1):
>       GNU/Hurd platform support fixes (#9873)
> Robert Goulet (1):
>       VS2010: Disable PDBs when there is no debug info
> Rolf Eike Beer (2):
>       clean up some stuff in CPack RPM script
>       Set MSVC_VERSION for MSVC 6, 7, 7.1 (#7944)
> Todd Gamblin (3):
>       Modules: Fix spelling 'To distributed' -> 'To distribute'
>       Teach find_* commands to ignore some paths
>       Add platform files for BlueGene/P systems
> Zach Mullen (12):
>       Checksums on CTest submit files, and retry timed out submissions.
>       Cross-platform fixes for checksum/retry code
>       Fix subscript out of range crash
>       CTest should resubmit in the checksum failed case
>       Testing for CTest checksum
>       Mock checksum failure output for old CDash versions
>       Checksum test should use CMAKE_TESTS_CDASH_SERVER
>       Fix cycle detection for test dependencies
>       More robust cost-based scheduling impl
>       Fix hard-coded CDash URI in version query
>       Added CTest command --print-labels
>       We shouldn't ask CDash for its version info until/unless we actually
> need it.
>
>