As of CMake 2.6 a custom command output specified by relative path is
placed in the build tree. This adds a test to make sure other
references to the output are hooked up correctly, fixing a bug in CMake
2.6.1.
Custom command dependencies that are not full paths or targets may also
match source files. When one does, the full information about the
source file's location and name may be used. This fixes the case when a
custom commands depends by relative path on a source file generated by
another custom command specifying its output by relative path.
A name with an ambiguous extension may only match an unambiguous name
that is extended by one of the fixed set of extensions tried when
finding the source file on disk. This rule makes matching of source
files with ambiguous extensions much less aggressive but still
sufficient.
When generating RPATH entries on the link line using a repeated linker
flag (-R ... -R ... style) do not convert individual entries to a full
path. We need to preserve what the user requested.
When generating escape sequences for the native build tool do not put in
Makefile escapes for paths generated into link scripts. This fixes
putting "$ORIGIN" into the RPATH, and probably some other subtle
problems.
Creation of archive libraries with the unix 'ar' tool should be done
incrementally when the number of object files is large. This avoids
problems with the command line getting too many arguments.
When attempting to load the RPATH out of a non-ELF file cmELF would
crash because the check for a valid file was done with in correct
operator precedence. See bug#7392.
For historical reasons we still support naming of source files without
their extension. Sources without known extensions are located on disk
by iterating through a fixed set of possible extensions. We now want
users to always specify the extension, so the fixed set will not be
expanded and is preserved for compatibility with older projects.
This change adds recognition of extensions of all enabled languages to
avoid checking the disk for files whose extensions are unambiguous but
not in the original fixed set.
In CMake 2.4 the generated link line for a target always preserved the
originally specified libraries in their original order. Dependencies
were satisfied by inserting extra libraries into the line, though it had
some bugs. In CMake 2.6.0 we preserved only the items on the link line
that are not known to be shared libraries. This reduced excess
libraries on the link line. However, since we link to system libraries
(such as /usr/lib/libm.so) by asking the linker to search (-lm), some
linkers secretly replace the library with a static library in another
implicit search directory (developers can override this by using an
imported target to force linking by full path). When this happens the
order still matters.
To avoid this and other potential subtle issues this commit restores
preservation of all non-target items and static library targets. This
will create cases of unnecessary, duplicate shared libraries on the link
line if the user specifies them, but at least it will work. In the
future we can attempt a more advanced analysis to safely remove
duplicate shared libraries from the link line.
We preserve the order and multiplicity of libraries directly linked by a
target as specified by the user. Items known to be shared libraries may
be safely skipped because order preservation is only needed for static
libraries. However, CMake 2.4 did not skip shared libs, so we do the
same when in 2.4 compatibility mode.
We never explicitly specify system library directories in linker or
runtime search paths. Furthermore, libraries in these directories are
always linked by asking the linker to search for them. We need to
generate a warning when explicitly specified search directories contain
files that may hide the system libraries during the search.
This change introduces policy CMP0008 to decide how to treat full path
libraries that do not appear to be valid library file names. Such
libraries worked by accident in the VS IDE and Xcode generators with
CMake 2.4 and below. We support them in CMake 2.6 by introducing this
policy. See policy documentation added by this change for details.
Brad King
Alexander Neundorf
Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva
David Cole
Bill Hoffman
Douglas Gregor