Re: [CMake] building cmake without the bootstrap step

2019-12-12 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Never mind, this tweak to the bootstrap script should take care of anything not directly obvious. Could do with an automated test of the installed version but the accepted version range is so large that doesn't seem to be the trouble. ``` if [ -x ${cmake_prefix_dir}/bin/cmake ] ;then # use the

Re: [CMake] building cmake without the bootstrap step

2019-12-12 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Thursday December 12 2019 09:36:03 Kyle Edwards wrote: >If you want to skip bootstrapping, you can use a pre-existing CMake >binary for your system to build the new CMake. > >This mailing list is deprecated. Please head over to Discourse for >further discussion: OK, thanks. To finish things up

Re: [CMake] building cmake without the bootstrap step

2019-12-12 Thread Kyle Edwards via CMake
On Thu, 2019-12-12 at 15:15 +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Hi, > > If I understand correctly, configuring CMake for building means > bootstrapping a basic version of itself which is then run on the > included CMakeLists.txt file. That takes a lot of time > (comparatively) which begs the question

[CMake] building cmake without the bootstrap step

2019-12-12 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, If I understand correctly, configuring CMake for building means bootstrapping a basic version of itself which is then run on the included CMakeLists.txt file. That takes a lot of time (comparatively) which begs the question if there's a more-of-less official way to skip the bootstrap and ju