[Kde-games-devel] CMake questions

Frederik Schwarzer schwarzer at kde.org
Fri Oct 9 10:40:53 UTC 2015


Am Mittwoch, 30. September 2015, 00:17:56 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> El Dimarts, 29 de setembre de 2015, a les 10:56:41, Frederik
> Schwarzer va
> escriure:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > while looking through some make files, I found two things that I
> > do
> > not understand.
> > 
> > 1)  add_definitions("-Dx -Dy") vs. add_definitions(-Dx -Dy)
> > Is there a difference? Laurent added the quoted version in KShisen
> > but "in the wild" I can only find the non-quoted version.
> > 
> > 2)  CMP0063
> > When building KShisen, I get a message, that lead me to this
> > explanation: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.3/policy/CMP0063.html
> > But to be honest, I do not understand the implications of this.
> > In other KDE applications, the devs just set cmake to OLD
> > behaviour. That feels unsatisfying to me. Setting it to NEW also
> > helps but since I do not understand, what this is about, I
> > refrain from doing anything.
> > Can anyone explain, what this means?
> 
> If noone has an answer in a few days i suggest you try
> kde-buildsystem at kde.org

I did and I also asked Laurent about 1).
Nobody knows a difference there between the quoted and the non-quoted 
version.

As for 2), it seems to be complicated. There are discussions going on 
between our CMake masters and the CMake devs. Shrugging for now.

Regards
Frederik


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