On 2009-02-01 09:03-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
According to the documentation of 2.6.2, policies CMP0008 and CMP0009
were introduced after 2.6.0. Also, according to that documentation,
cmake_policy(VERSION 2.6.0) should set those policies to OLD and warn about
that.
I use
CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.6.0 FATAL_ERROR)
according to the documentation that sets
cmake_policy(VERSION 2.6.0)
by default. This documented behaviour seems quite logical and useful so
that users can use a variety of CMake versions above 2.6.0 and get the
same 2.6.0 policies.
However, I could see no such warning messages concerning policies CMP0008 and
CMP0009 even with -Wdev (and even if I use cmake_policy(VERSION 2.6.0)
explicitly). I then investigated further with
foreach(policy RANGE 0 9)
if(POLICY CMP000${policy})
message(STATUS "Policy ${policy} is ON")
else(POLICY CMP000${policy})
message(STATUS "Policy ${policy} is OFF")
endif(POLICY CMP000${policy})
endforeach(policy RANGE 0 9)
and obtained
-- Policy 0 is ON
-- Policy 1 is ON
-- Policy 2 is ON
-- Policy 3 is ON
-- Policy 4 is ON
-- Policy 5 is ON
-- Policy 6 is ON
-- Policy 7 is ON
-- Policy 8 is ON
-- Policy 9 is ON
I am pretty sure the ON result for policies CMP0008 and CMP0009 for
CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.6.0 FATAL_ERROR)
must be a bug in 2.6.2.
Oops! That test simply asked if a policy exists. So that test is ambiguous
at best. Here is an improved test and results:
foreach(policy RANGE 0 9)
cmake_policy(GET CMP000${policy} policy_result)
message(STATUS "Policy CMP000${policy} is ${policy_result}")
endforeach(policy RANGE 0 9)
-- Policy CMP0000 is NEW
-- Policy CMP0001 is NEW
-- Policy CMP0002 is NEW
-- Policy CMP0003 is NEW
-- Policy CMP0004 is NEW
-- Policy CMP0005 is NEW
-- Policy CMP0006 is NEW
-- Policy CMP0007 is NEW
-- Policy CMP0008 is
-- Policy CMP0009 is
So from these results (and if you can trust the documentation of
cmake_policy(GET ...)) it appears CMP0008 and CMP0009 are not set. Shouldn't
those be set to OFF with a warning (i.e., the documented behaviour) when
CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.6.0 FATAL_ERROR)
is used?
If a policy is undefined as for CMP0008 and CMP0009 for 2.6.2 what does that
mean? Is that the same as OLD (or NEW) or does the policy implementation
have buggy/unknown behaviour under these circumstances?
Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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