New cmake warning.

Michael Reeves reeves.87 at gmail.com
Tue May 3 19:09:25 BST 2022


That would only affect people who manually update ECM and in that case the
error comes first. So warning isn't much use to projects like kdiff3 which
don't encourage ot support this kind of wierdness anyway

On Tue, May 3, 2022, 12:26 PM Thomas Friedrichsmeier <
thomas.friedrichsmeier at kdemail.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 3 May 2022 10:35:20 +0200
> Méven <meven29 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am guessing you are using cmake >= 3.16 so it allows you to run, but
> > since the project does not have a cmake minimum, for others using
> > cmake < 3.16 the build will break.
> > This warning highlights it, so you inform your contributor they need
> > cmake 3.16 before running into the hard fail in FindKF5.
>
> On the downside, project wishing to remain backwards-compatible with
> older systems (which will come with older versions of both cmake and
> ECM) will want to avoid adding such a requirement, explicitly.
>
> Thomas
>
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