[CMake] Infinite loop with cmake-2.8.10.2

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Jed Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
> > Don't specify the compiler like this:
> > 
> > CC=clang cmake .
> 
> I'm not looking for a work-around [*], I'm looking for the problem to be
> fixed so it stops blowing up in users' faces. The fact is that
> (a) -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER is an established and supported mechanism and (b) an
> infinite loop is *never* acceptable.

I second the part about the infinite loop, but…

> [*] Shitty workaround because you can't change the compiler this way.
> (E.g., run "cmake .", notice that it's not using the compiler you want, so
> run again to fix it.)

Changing the compiler usually will not work anyway. That's why we have 
separate build trees: wipe the whole thing and start again.

Eike
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