Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2009-07-16 14:04-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
>>> On 2009-07-15 22:46-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]To summarize the choice we can have
>>>> no soft landings or no cmake-gui.
>> I have just committed (revision 10153) the hard-landing solution because
>> there is no way I wanted to have both ccmake and cmake-gui provide broken
>> language results such as found by Hazen and confirmed in detail by me.
>>
>> However, immediately after I did that commit, the CMake gurus on the CMake
>> list came up with a temporary workaround for bug
>> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=9220.  The workaround should
>> provide a soft landing for both the missing and broken compiler cases which
>> I think will work quite well.  However, the implementation of this idea (to
>> run a simple cmake configuration from within cmake to check on each compiler
>> in question) is non-trivial so it will take me a while to finish with this
>> issue.
>>
>> So more later.
> 
> I believe I have now (revision 10157) finished this saga.  The new
> soft-landing method (issue a warning message, disable that component of
> PLplot, and continue) when compilers are missing/broken seems to work well.
> For example, it appears to work both for cmake and cmake-gui. Please try it
> out.
> 
> I have also enabled the D compiler by default since its examples are fairly
> complete and the bindings and examples build without issues.
> 
> Previously, we were rather reluctant to enable a new language by default,
> but now that a missing/broken compiler only causes a warning, I believe the
> criteria for enabling a language by default do not have to be quite so 
> severe as before.

I just tested this today with MinGW on Windows and the cmake GUI no 
longer crashes when run on plplot v10175. However... I have the standard 
MinGW C++ compiler which worked in the past for compiling PLplot but 
neither command line cmake nor gui-cmake will let me use it.

-Hazen


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