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Re: [trinity-devel] CMake CMP0046 changes

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 17:55:56 +0200
On Monday 06 of October 2014 16:33:30 Sl�vek Banko wrote:
> On Monday 06 of October 2014 06:47:36 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> > On 10/06/2014 01:10 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
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> > > Slavek, all,
> > >
> > > When building TDE on Debian Jessie I have run into several instances
> > > where tdebase FTBFS due to the recent changes in CMake policy CMP0046.
> > > Setting the OLD behavior repairs the problem.
> > >
> > > Are there any drawbacks to setting CMP0046 OLD globally?  If not can
> > > one of the CMake gurus here please push a proper patch to the cmake
> > > module ASAP?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Tim
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> > Tim,
> > I always build on Jessie and haven't run in any FTBFS due to CMP0046 (at
> > least until last Saturday). Nevertheless looking at some log files I can
> > see warnings about that.
> > We can push a patch similar to the one pushed in commit 0d5ca8be for
> > CMP0026. But given the reasons of such warning:
> >
> > "Error on non-existent dependency in add_dependencies.
> > CMake 2.8.12 and lower silently ignored non-existent dependencies listed
> > in the add_dependencies() command.
> > The OLD behavior for this policy is to silently ignore non-existent
> > dependencies. The NEW behavior for this policy is to report an error if
> > non-existent dependencies are listed in the add_dependencies() command."
> >
> > IMO it would be better to remove or fix the non-existent dependency.
> >
> > Perhaps we can push a patch temporarily for v14.0.0 and file a bug
> > report against fixing all non-existent dependencies for after v14.0.0.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Cheers
> >    Michele
>
> I tried it just now - yes I see many reports CMP0046. However, not caused
> FTBFS. I'll look at it more closely.

Well, I looked and really this is a bug. For tdebase fixed in commit aaf2ebb5. 
Setting the CMP0046 to OLD therefore I consider inappropriate. As we discover 
CMD0046 messages, then should be corrected.

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Sl�vek