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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ANNOUNCE: CMake 2.4.5 will be required starting Monday, March 19th
From:       Eduard Bachmakov <e.bachmakov () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2007-03-11 18:33:20
Message-ID: 200703111933.21698.e.bachmakov () googlemail ! com
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I'm no expert in buildsystems so this might be a silly question but will 
2.4.5+ bring us advantages because of cmake itself or because of the changes 
in the CMakeLists.txt files (that require the new version)?

Am Sonntag, 11. März 2007 schrieb Alexander Neundorf:
> Hi,
>
> starting Monday in a week, March 19th, at least CMake 2.4.5 or newer will
> be required for building KDE4.
> (the last update was 6 months and one week ago, Sept. 12th, 2006 when we
> required 2.4.3)
>
> This will bring us compared to 2.4.3:
> -better support for building the tests (the targets will always be there
> but not always part of the "all" target)
> -INSTALL(DIRECTORY ... ) as it is used by the oxygen icons
> -faster dependency scanning
> -IF( file1 IS_NEWER_THAN file2 ) which will enable us to do automoc at
> buildtime (and not at cmake/configure time as it always was)
> -various minor improvements and bug fixes here and there
>
> So, please update your CMake to version 2.4.5 or 2.4.6 until next Monday,
> March 19th if you haven't done so yet.
>
> With this version we will live again for at least several months.
>
> Bye
> Alex


 
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