The following issue has been SUBMITTED. ====================================================================== http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12563 ====================================================================== Reported By: Robert Pollak Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: CMake Issue ID: 12563 Category: CMake Reproducibility: always Severity: major Priority: normal Status: new ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2011-11-08 09:50 CET Last Modified: 2011-11-08 09:50 CET ====================================================================== Summary: CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS should be removed from the documentation Description: Currently the doc says "May not work!" and "This option does not work for more complicated projects ..."
We lost some time trying to get this to work for our project, which is not *that* complicated. Only then we became aware of: * issue 6642 "Absolute relative paths for VS?", "won't fix" since 2008 (Quote: "If you are looking to create relocatable vcproj files CMake is the wrong tool.") * Bill Hoffman saying on the mailing list "You should give up on CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS , and we should deprecate it from CMake. It just does not work, and frustrates people." (2009-11-21) * Michael Jackson saying on the list "There are lots of questions on this CMake variable and the consensus is DO NOT USE IT. PERIOD. The implementation is basically broken for all but the most trivial case." (2009-12-21) So I propose to remove this variable from the documentation in order to save your users a lot of time of unsuccessfully testing it. ====================================================================== Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2011-11-08 09:50 Robert Pollak New Issue ====================================================================== -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
