This module was added by commit v2.6.0~1489 (...supporting embedded
compilers..., 2007-07-02) to avoid needing to build the compiler id
detection source on toolchains that need special flags or linker files
to produce executables. Since then CMake has learned other ways to
identify such compilers (e.g. passing vendor-specific version flags and
checking for vendor-specific banners in the output). Furthermore, CMake
now detects a lot more than just the compiler id during language
initialization in order to support things like <LANG>_STANDARD and
COMPILE_FEATURES. Therefore CMakeForceCompiler is no longer a viable
approach because it skips such detection.
One remaining challenge to support toolchains that require special
linker files is to build the test for a working compiler, compiler ABI
detection binary, and other try_compile cases. This will have to be
worked out as such cases are encountered.
The change made by commit v3.4.0-rc1~342^2 (Factor an <INCLUDES>
placeholder out of <FLAGS> in rule variables, 2015-07-13) affects an
internal interface. Since it is commonly used by projects anyway, add a
release note covering the change in placeholders.
Starting with sigc++ 2.5.1, c++11 must be enabled in order to use
sigc++. The GTK2::sigc++ imported target will automatically enable the
required build flags in order to build with the version found on the
system.
Move all development release notes into a new version-specific document:
tail -q -n +3 Help/release/dev/* > Help/release/3.4.rst
git rm -- Help/release/dev/*
except the sample topic:
git checkout HEAD -- Help/release/dev/0-sample-topic.rst
Reference the new document from the release notes index document.
Add a title and intro sentence to the new document by hand.
Teach the VS 2015 generator to produce a WindowsTargetPlatformVersion
value. Use the CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION to specify the version and if not
set choose a default based on available SDKs. Activate this behavior
when targeting Windows 10.
Co-Author: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Some commands on Windows do not understand forward slash paths and
require backslashes. In order to help projects generate shell
invocations of such commands, provide a generator expression to convert
paths to the shell-preferred path format for the current generator.
This will allow custom commands to generate paths the same way CMake
does for compiler command invocations.
The changes in commit 47b060ae (CPackDeb: allow empty directories in
component packages, 2015-09-21), commit b58de9fe (CPack: allow packaging
of empty directories, 2015-09-21), and commit b761e90d (CPack: remove
accidental changes, 2015-09-22) regressed packaging of CMake itself.
Revert the changes until they can be revised and rebased on other
changes that make additional fixes.
fff9434d FindThreads: officially announce it works with only C++ enabled
66db914a FindThreads: fix printing a pointer value in test code
0b38424c FindThreads: make the call to try_run() work also if only C++ is enabled
9924a212 FindThreads: replace CheckIncludeFiles by CheckIncludeFile
a27bc0cc Check(Function|Library|Symbol)Exists: make it work if only C++ is enabled
7279f293 FindThreads: add simple testcase
The changes in commit c96fe0b4 (cmake: Add -W options to control
deprecation warnings and errors, 2015-07-28) fail to account for
-Wdev warnings produced by places in CMake other than message().
This causes a regression in which -Wno-dev fails to suppress such
warnings. Revert the feature until it can be revised accordingly.
If variable is set to TRUE, values of all variables prefixed with CPACK_
will be escaped so special characters such as dolar sign, quotes or
foreward slash will not be lost. By default variable is treated as set
to FALSE for back compatibility.
The cpack_encode_variables macro is changed into a function to remove
scope pollution. There should be no other effects.
Add ctest command-line options:
--test-output-size-passed <n>
--test-output-size-failed <n>
to set the amount of test output to store in Test.xml as a command-line
dashboard client.
e134e53b Add support for *.manifest source files with MSVC tools
da00be63 MSVC: Rewrite manifest file handling with Makefile and Ninja
d488b5c9 Ninja: Always add OBJECT_DIR variable to link rules
6d620f5a VS: Add manifest tool settings to VS 8 and 9 project files
7c5b6ed5 ExternalProject: Use "git stash save --all" only if supported (#15722)
b04c3815 ExternalProject: Use GIT_VERSION_STRING instead of custom method
becb14c9 CPack/DEB: test preserve extra config file permissions
7044e8ee CPackDeb: use of libarchive and removal of fakeroot
415405a3 cmArchiveWrite: control user/group, permissions and recursive file adding
4f2ff601 Tests: Make RunCMake.CPack error messages more readable
81b748ae cmGeneratedFileStream: Fix spelling in comment