[CMake] Updated: CMake 2.8.4-1

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu May 19 14:19:00 EDT 2011


On 5/19/2011 2:11 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2011-05-19 10:55-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
>> CMake 2.8.4-1 is now available on Cygwin mirrors.
>
> Hi Bill:
>
> Could you give some background information about why you create a
> binary version of cmake for Cygwin that is separated in time and
> location from the usual binaries that come with any release of cmake?
>
> Could any Cygwin user create that binary using an older Cygwin cmake
> binary + source code? Or are additional Cygwin-only cmake source code
> patches and/or special configuration required as well?
>
> IOW, is there anything special going on here or is this just a routine
> binary build of cmake for Cygwin users' convenience?
>
> I am interested in the requested background information because I hope
> to test builds of cmake, PLplot, and other software shortly under
> wine/Cygwin. (Similar to my earlier build tests of cmake, etc. on a
> wine/MinGW/MSYS platform.)
>

My bad, I will try to be better about it in the future.  I have no good 
excuse.  :)

-Bill


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