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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