Hi Alan,
Well, it seems the porting of CMake 3.02 to Cygwin is already being undertaken,
witnessing some discussion wrt that version on the Cygwin list. One thing less
to worry about :).
Regards,
Arjen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5:17 PM
> To: Arjen Markus
> Cc: PLplot development list
> Subject: RE: [Plplot-devel] Looks like we are ready for CMake-3.0.2
>
> On 2014-09-30 09:12-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:
>
> > Hi Alan,
>
> > I have always understood that there is something special about the
> Cygwin version of CMake because of the idiosyncracies of the platform.
> But I will be glad to be mistaken :), in which case building it myself won't
> be a
> problem.
>
> Hi Arjen:
>
> Sorry I missed your previous point about the possible CMake idiosyncrasy on
> the
> Cygwin platform. Of course, the major idiosyncrasy (very important when
> rejecting
> use of the native Windows CMake version for the Cygwin platform) is linking
> to the
> Cygwin dll.
> But that happens automatically if you build CMake on Cygwin so that important
> idiosyncrasy should not be a concern to you.
>
> The other kind of idiosyncrasy that might be of importance to you is whether
> any
> patches are applied when building the Cygwin version. To figure that out, you
> would
> have to ask the Cygwin CMake packager about that or go through similar
> analysis to
> what we discovered before concerning Tcl/Tk Cygwin packages. Such analysis
> can
> help you figure out the exact build commands that are used to build (Tcl, Tk,
> CMake,
> etc.,) on Cygwin. So once you know from such analysis (or from
> asking) what patch (if any) is applied to CMake-2.8.9, then with some luck
> that same
> patch would apply to CMake-3.0.2, and the build would be trivial after that.
> I think it
> is definitely worth knowing whether a patch has to be applied to build CMake
> on
> Cygwin because that knowledge would be definitely useful for epa_build.
>
> Alan
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