please update to cmake 2.4.3

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Fri Aug 25 09:38:01 BST 2006


Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 09:22 schrieb Mirko Boehm:
> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 09:06, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > Any chance of putting this off a few more weeks?  Perhaps till after
> > akadamy?   Having one less piece of software that we have to build
> > manually ourselves means a lot for anyone starting up from scratch.
>
> Hi,
>
> since cmake is an external dependency that will be smacked over our heads
> by everybody in the outside world as soon as we release anything with it,
> how about that:
>
> We build a bootstrap step into the configure or make phase of the packages
> that use *qmake* to download and install the required cmake locally. The
> step should be fairly simple, and qmake is always there.
>
> I know this requires a working network connection et cetera, but it gives
> us an argument towards potential complainers. And also, it rids *us* of a
> potential manual step everytime cmake updates.
>
> Opinions?
It's another way to break the build system that is hard to debug remotely: no!

Greetings, Stephan




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