On 2016-07-11 17:17+0200 Christoph Grüninger wrote:
Hi Ben, this comes from the open build system, which is the system used by openSuse to generate the packages. If the CMake version is updated, which happens quite often, the generated files are altered and the packages are rebuild, repackaged and republished. Without the version number in the generated files, it wouldn't happen.
Hi Christoph: For the use case you describe, shouldn't that rebuild happen to maintain consistency between the openSuse version of CMake and all the openSuse packages that are built with CMake? CMake does have a large degree of backwards compatibility, but it is not perfect so I think the version does matter. Another way of saying this is you might want to consider CMake to be part of the tool chain (like gcc is) where any version difference is presumably considered to be quite significant and therefore worth a rebuild of binary packages. I don't know what openSuse policy is for gcc version changes, but presumably such changes are heavily controlled to reduce rebuilds, and openSuse has the option of following that heavy control of version change policy for CMake instead of doing what I consider to be a workaround which is patching CMake to remove version information from the generated results. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
