[CMake] Advice on converting legacy project to modern CMake

[Alexander Neundorf]

On 2017 M08 10, Thu 17:15:00 CEST Robert Maynard wrote:
> > Which leads to a question I have for the Kitware types here.  What
> 
> should I suggest to my Linux enterprise distribution users? Can they
> simply download and use the latest Linux binary version of CMake that
> is distributed by Kitware or are there library version
> incompatibilities that make that option non-viable? Alternatively, if
> such users want to build modern CMake for themselves can they do that
> or do system library incompatibilities stop them in that case as well?
> 
> The official CMake  binaries are built using a static libstdc++ and
> static glibc so they should be able to work on any x86_64 linux
> machine.

it starts to be a bit different once you want to use also cmake-gui, then the 
requirements a a bit higher.
I think at 3.7 or something it defaults to Qt5 and xcb, and that is not 
available on really old systems (RHEL5).

Alex