KDE Workspace broken due to upstream CMake changes

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday 27 May 2013, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
>> Am 27.05.2013 09:13, schrieb Ben Cooksley:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > It seems that a recent upstream change in CMake has now broken the
>> > build of KDE Workspace. Can someone please fix or prod CMake upstream
>> > into revising their policies?
>> >
>> > The lack of warning here concerning the change is a little irritating.
>> >
>> > -- Looking for XkbLockModifiers in X11
>> >
>> > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:10 (ADD_EXECUTABLE):
>> >   Target "cmTryCompileExec744440252" links to item
>> >
>> > "/usr/lib64/libXpm.so "
>> >
>> >   which has leading or trailing whitespace.  This is now an error
>> >
>> > according
>> >
>> >   to policy CMP0004.
>> >
>> > CMake Error: Internal CMake error, TryCompile generation of cmake
>> > failed
>> > -- Looking for XkbLockModifiers in X11 - not found
>>
>> That's what the policies are for at all ;)
>
> hmm, not really.
> CMP0004 is not new. It was working with cmake 2.8.10, so it should, well must,
> work also with 2.8.11.

Does this mean we have found a regression in CMake?
Or is the policy being enforced more strictly now?

(ie. should CMake be fixed, or do we need to be fixed)

>
> Alex

Regards,
Ben