CMake 2.8.4-rc1 ready for testing!
I am happy to announce that CMake 2.8.4 has entered the release candidate stage! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D
Following is the list of changes in this release. Please try this version of CMake on your projects and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker.
Happy building!
-Dave
Changes in CMake 2.8.4-rc1 (since 2.8.3)
—————————————-
Alex Neundorf (32):
Add support for nasm assembler, patch by Peter Collingbourne (see #10069)
Improve misleading comments.
Add missing copyright headers
We already have 2010, fix copyright year.
Make FindBISON work properly with non-C locales (#11326)
Add support for yasm, a nasm compatible assembler
Use CMAKE_ASM_NASM_FLAGS for nasm instead of FLAGS
Remove trailing whitespace and minor formatting changes for the dot-code
Move the code for collecting targets and libraries into separate functions
Properly insert all targets, also those which don’t link to anything.
Generate separate dot files for each target, and a big one with everything.
Move the code for generating dot-files into separate class cmGraphVizWriter
Fix #11421: FindQt3.cmake doesn’t honor the REQUIRED keyword
Remove trailing whitespace
Don’t enforce VERBOSE makefiles for the CodeBlocks generator
Remove the “early alpha stage” comments about Eclipse and C::B
Don’t disable colors in the CodeBlocks generator and minor cleanup.
Some more fixes for nasm support, from Etienne (#10069)
Enable/disable generating graphs depending on the target type
Use std::cout instead of fprintf
Collect targets and libs on demand instead of in the ctor
Exclude targets from the graphviz file based on a regex
Include CMakeDetermineCompilerId in CMakeDetermineASMCompiler.cmake (#11467)
Fix typos in the doc
Add cache var CMAKE_ECLIPSE_MAKE_ARGUMENTS when using the Eclipse generator
Add ECLIPSE_CDT4_GENERATE_SOURCE_PROJECT as a ADVANCED cache variable (#9631)
Fix crash in Eclipse generator with empty project (#11616)
Fix indentation in cmPolicies::ApplyPolicyVersion()
Remove trailing whitespace
Prefer files from CMAKE_ROOT when including from CMAKE_ROOT
Improve documentation and messages for the new CMP0017
Remove usage of CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR now that we have CMP0017
Alexey Ozeritsky (5):
FindBLAS works in C/C++ projects without Fortran
ACML find fixes (issue 0011219)
find ACML fixes
fix for Fortran-only projects
FindLAPACK works with C/C++ only projects (issue 0009976)
Andrius Štikonas (1):
Modules: Fix spelling ‘becase’ -> ‘because’.
Ben Boeckel (25):
Fix parsing of cache variables without a type
Use cmCacheManager to load entries from the cache
Support manual cache entries
Condense parsing of cache entries
Use FPHSA in FindOpenGL
Ignore strerror_r since CMake isn’t threaded
Use _POLL_EMUL_H_ instead of HAVE_POLL_FINE
Rename WorkingDirectory test
Add WORKING_DIRECTORY argument to add_test
Add tests for WORKING_DIRECTORY arg to add_test
Rename the project to match the test
Fix header includes for C++ and Visual Studio
Add ctype.h include for toupper()
Flip slashes around on Windows
Use –><– markers to denote the path
Simplify the _default_cwd derivation
Only test the default cwd with Makefiles
Group adding tests with its properties
Fully specify the path to old-signature add_test
Use iostream to make Borland happy
Check for poll when looking for _POLL_EMUL_H_
Toss out strerror_r macros
Fix missed _POLL_EMUL_H_ and HAVE_POLL combo
Make TestsWorkingDirectory test a C file
Pass the expected value as the first argument
Bill Hoffman (17):
Fixes for the OSF operating system build.
Add a fix for the inline keyword on the osf os.
Add a “Contract” test for VTK. The test downloads and builds VTK.
Fix contract test so it is not hard coded to the vtk542 test.
Fix incremental linking for VS2010 with nmake or make.
Change cpack run and verify script to work with multi-config generators.
Fix vs2010 project generation error when HEADER_FILE_ONLY is set.
Add more documentation for LANGUAGE property.
Add flags to resource builds on vs 2010 with a test.
Disable incremental testing for this test, it crashes vs9 linker.
Only run resource test for MSVC compilers.
Add support for windows resources with mingw/msys.
Add support for windres to cygwin.
Add testing for windows resources for mingw/msys/cygwin and remove for watcom.
Enable resource building with the intel compiler on windows.
Add support for source files in custom targets for VS 10 (Bug#11330).
Change the nightly tests to build from the nightly branch and not next.
Brad King (90):
Store direct dependencies in solutions for VS >= 8
BUG: Fix compiler flag test for non-English MSVC (#11336)
Document custom command behavior without DEPENDS (#11407)
Consolidate duplicate link rule make dependency code
Define LINK_DEPENDS target property (#11406)
KWSys: Teach SystemInformation about WinXP Pro and Win7
Fix Intel .vfproj SubSystem attribute values
Set Intel .vfproj RuntimeLibrary attribute
Create Fortran info variables for .mod behavior
Teach CMake about Cray C, C++, and Fortran compilers
Speedup find_* commands (#11412)
Prefer non-empty prefixes when matching lib names (#11468)
Record edge type in global dependency graph
Use modern global dependency graph for VS < 8 deps
Allow add_dependencies() on imported targets (#10395)
Pass Mac linker flag through PGI compiler using “-Wl,”
Modernize FindITK module (#11494)
Fix find_* argument parsing crash (#11513)
Skip VS <= 7.1 dependency analysis for VS >= 8
Enable 64-bit tools with VS 2010 Express (#9981, #10722)
KWSys: Associate installed library with an EXPORT
Fix try_compile RemoveFile anti-virus loop (#11503)
Fix Fortran .mod timestamps with Cray compiler
Make Fortran $obj.provides.build targets not .PHONY
Honor custom command dependencies on imported targets (#10395)
Improve signature of cmLocalGenerator::GetRealDependency
Skip file-level dependencies on custom targets (#11332)
Simplify VS generator ConstructScript interface
Factor out common custom command generator
Remove cmLocalGenerator::GetRealLocation
KWSys: Remove realpath from SystemTools::GetPath (#10335)
Fix parallel “make install” of CMake itself
CTest: Fix ctest_sleep documentation (#11554)
Fix soname in cross-compiled targets with Mac host (#11547)
Detect object files in implicit link information
Allow Fortran platform files to set empty values
Recognize the NAG Fortran compiler
Add NAG Fortran compiler information files
FortranCInterface: Recognize NAG Fortran module symbols
Remove unused variable “rootdir” in VS generators
Avoid msbuild idiosyncrasy that builds multiple configs (#11594)
Remove unused parameter “root” in some VS generator methods
Fix dependency tracing of INSTALL and PACKAGE (#11598)
Remove unused GLOBAL_TARGET generation code
KWSys: Use EXPORT name only if installing library
Write full version into try_compile CMakeLists
KWSys: Do not mangle UNC paths in ConvertToUnixOutputPath (#10206)
Normalize add_custom_command OUTPUT names (#10485)
Make link rule depend on “.def” file (#11014)
Document target_link_libraries target scope (#11058)
Record backtrace in cmCustomCommand
Factor generator expression docs out of add_test
Factor per-config sample targets out of ‘Testing’ test
Optionally suppress errors in cmGeneratorExpression
Record set of targets used in cmGeneratorExpression
Introduce “generator expression” syntax to custom commands (#11209)
CTest: Fix test DEPEND cycle detection
Make Intel defines consistent with MSVC on Windows (#9904)
CTest: Fix line-too-long style in DEPEND cycle error
Detect Fortran target architecture on Windows
Modernize Intel compiler info on Windows
Remove unused old-style g++ info file
CheckCCompilerFlag: Strict signature of ‘main’ (#11615)
Warn in find(GLOB) docs about bad use case (#11617)
Remove call to SystemTools::GetMaximumFilePathLength
Xcode: Generate native 3.2 projects
Declare min CMake version in –system-information project
Cygwin: Fix tests to check CYGWIN instead of WIN32
Cygwin: Do not define ‘WIN32’ (#10122)
Revert “Remove unused parameter “root” in some VS generator methods”
Revert “Avoid msbuild idiosyncrasy that builds multiple configs” (#11633)
Avoid msbuild “.\” idiosyncrasy that builds multiple configs (#11594)
Mark CustomCommand test perconfig.out as SYMBOLIC
CTest: Factor out duplicate Git author/committer code
KWSys: Avoid buffer overflow in SystemInformation (#11018)
Fix sentence break in add_test documentation
Pass Mac linker flag through all compilers with -Wl,
KWSys: Avoid passing string literal as char*
Avoid passing string literal to char* type
Fix constness in compiler id detection
Build enable_language command during bootstrap
Map multiple /FI flags for VS < 10 (#11649)
KWSys: Remove useless include <sys/procfs.h> (#11648)
Allow users to specify defaults for unset policies
ccmake: Use LSB 4.0 curses API conditionally
CTest: Do not truncate UTF-8 test output too early (#10656)
ccmake: Use LSB 4.0 getmaxyx conditionally
Allow platform files to set large archive rules (#11674)
Document reading LOCATION early as undefined (#11671)
Document reading LOCATION_<CONFIG> early as undefined (#11671)
Brian Bassett (1):
VS: Fix linking of Fortran-only DLL projects (#10803)
Campbell Barton (1):
Honor RULE_MESSAGES property for build target messages
Chuck Atkins (1):
CTest: Teach launcher to ignore empty/no-op make commands
Clinton Stimpson (11):
Fix regex for moc includes when looking for frameworks.
cmake-gui: use BundleUtilities in place of custom script.
Fix regression in 2dae2f1 which added find of Qt imports dir.
Force cmake to run again when qrc dependency scanning needs to happen.
Fix regression to allow specifying a CMakeCache.txt file on the command line.
BundleUtilities: only do rpath strip on copied prerequisites.
Fix build issues cross compiling with static Qt.
CTest: multiple ctest_test calls w/LABEL regexs (#11487)
cmake-gui: always enable generate button.
allow absolute paths for dbus interface.
Add support for using static/dynamic Qt plugins.
Craig Scott (1):
ccmake: Port for LSB 4.0 (#11648)
Dave Abrahams (1):
FindPerlLibs: Fix for Mac locally applied patches
David Cole (31):
Add a contract test for building the CSE.
Enable overriding contract test timeout values.
Update tag in the Contracts/cse-snapshot test.
Make HTML test fail when –nonet arg is not available.
Begin post-2.8.3 development
No CMake.HTML test if xmllint has no –nonet.
Suppress “loop was vectorized” “warnings.”
Add contract test for Trilinos 10.6.1 snapshot.
Honor FOLDER on include_external_msproject targets (#11436)
Correct misspelling in error message text.
BundleUtilities: error if fixup_bundle_item called on non-embedded item
VS10: stop build on custom command error (#11533)
CPack: look for makensis in the PATH (#8210)
VS10: avoid warning, no nologo when verbose (#10587)
Use m prefix in shorttag value to indicate “md5 of tarball”
Establish pass criteria for the Trilinos contract test.
Suppress erroneous warnings from Intel compiler
Avoid running CMake.Install test simultaneously with other tests
VS10: Finish Midl support (#11461)
Prohibit space in HOME value for VSMidl test.
KWSys: Fix CPU speed calculations (#9963)
KWSys: Retrieve QNX specific memory and processor info (#11329)
Improve build error detection.
VSMidl Test: Use correct include_directories with VS6 (#11461)
Add PATH_SUFFIXES for finding git.
ExternalProject: Avoid bleed-through output when logging.
Fix WOW64 registry mode on Windows 2000 (#10759)
ExternalProject: Replace location tags in CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS
CPack: Detect more URLs in CPACK_NSIS_MENU_LINKS (#10644)
KWSys: Fix WOW64 registry mode on Windows 2000 (#10759)
CPack: Add CPACK_NSIS_INSTALL_ROOT variable (#9148)
Eric NOULARD (13):
CPackRPM add basic component support to CPackRPM
CPack fix kwstyle breakage and make CPackRPM backward compatible
CPack backward compatibility fix 2.8.3-2.8.2 (bug 11452)
CPack Fix KWStyle error
CPack Honor CPACK_MONOLITHIC_INSTALL at CPack time too
CPack use IsOn when it’s better than IsSet
CPackRPM fix bug 0011595 : Can’t generate RPMs (on FC11…)
CPack new tests for component install
CPack Default component test for ZIP should be OK
CPackTest spit out more output in case of failure
Arrange output in a better way
Precise the project config type when invoking cpack
CPackSTGZ quote here-doc, fix bug10518
Kai Wasserbäch (1):
FindTCL: Fix TCL and TK version variable references (#11528)
Marcus D. Hanwell (5):
BUG 11451 – pass CMAKE_EXTRA_GENERATOR down.
Added CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS to ExternalProject.
Escape file write expansion, and build up lists.
Fixed bug where last entry would be lost.
Python additional version support, bug #10279.
Matthias Kretz (1):
Inline help in vim with vertical split.
Mike McQuaid (6):
Fix incorrect variable documentation (#11127)
Add variable for InstallRequiredSystemLibraries dir (#11140)
InstallRequiredSystemLibraries debug-only (#11141)
Allow NSIS package or uninstall icon (#11143)
Add CPACK_NSIS_EXECUTABLES_DIRECTORY (#7828)
Add CPack NSIS MUI_FINISHPAGE_RUN support (#11144)
Philip Lowman (8):
11363: FindBoost.cmake fails to find debug libraries in tagged layout install
11429: FindGTK2 does not find libraries built for Visual Studio 2010
11430: FindBullet doesn’t find header files installed by Bullet >= 2.77
11384: FindCxxTest now includes test code in VS project
[patch] Add Boost 1.45 to search, simplify a check removing VERSION_LESS
Add Boost 1.46
Fix spelling BOOST_LIBRARYDIR message. Add error for common misspellings.
Lowercase all function names and improve consistency
Rolf Eike Beer (2):
allow STRING(SUBSTRING) work with length -1 as “rest of the string”
Add the WORKING_DIRECTORY property to tests
Wojciech Migda (1):
Recognize the Texas Instruments DSP compiler (#11645)
Yaakov Selkowitz (2):
Cygwin: Use ‘cyg’ prefix for module DLLs (#10122)
Cygwin: Fix release script libncurses search patterns (#10766)
Zach Mullen (4):
Remove debugging message from parallel ctest
CTest git update should pass the committer as well as the author
Support explicitly set test costs in non-parallel testing.
Test TIMEOUT property explicitly set to zero should be honored