On behalf of myself, Ken, Brad, Andy and the rest of the CMake team, we are
pleased to announce that CMake 2.4.5 is available for download at:
http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html
If you have any problems or find any bugs, please report them at
www.cmake.org/Bug.
A list of changes for the 2.4 release tree is included below.
Thanks Bill
Changes in CMake 2.4.5
* Fix for seg fault when a macro runs a bad command BUG# 3815
* Fix fix for foo.dll.lib that does not break -L/usr/lib in link names
* Fix problem with LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH and linking to a dll foo.dll.lib
instead of foo.lib
* Do not depend on optimized libraries for a debug build and visa versa.
* Fix target name matching custom command output conflict.
* Fix FindQt3 so that it does not find qt4
* Fix FindKDE4 so that it only looks for kde4-config
Changes in CMake 2.4.4
* CMake Version numbers on module directory
* elseif added
* Fix docs in CheckCSourceCompiles CheckCXXSourceCompiles and diagnostic
output.
* added Check(C/CXX)SourceRuns.cmake, CheckCXXCompilerFlag.cmake, Check
* add static and shared flags to make sure the specified versions of
libraries are used with -static -lfoo -shared -lbar
* Search for the compiler only once and store a full path. avoids problems
with PATH changes in cmake re-runs.
* make sure manifest files are generated with VS 8
* added FindASPELL.cmake, FindBZip2.cmake FindHPELL.cmake, FindJasper.cmake
FindLibXml2.cmake, FindLibXslt.cmake, FindOpenSSL.cmake
* fix for bug#3646 GLUT not Glut for framework name
* many fixes for FindKDE3.cmake
* Better FindPNG that honors REQUIRED and looks in more places.
* Support to find python 2.5
* Find Qt3 better
* Find Qt4 better and work with qmake and qmake-qt4 on the same machine.
* Much better FindRuby.cmake
* More stuff marked as advanced in FindTcl and FindSDL
* FindwxWidgets runs shell script wx-config with sh
* Support for cpack and vs8 install libraries
* Darwin shared library create and Fortran now work
* Support for isystem directories INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES (SYSTEM)
* Targets in makefiles to create pre-processed files and assembly files
can be turned off with these variables:
CMAKE_SKIP_PREPROCESSED_SOURCE_RULES CMAKE_SKIP_ASSEMBLY_SOURCE_RULES
* Support for QNX
* Better default search paths for unix and FIND_* stuff
* Use link /lib and not lib to create static libraries with MS
* Useqt4 works with static qt4 and other fixes
* UseSwig.cmake interface to add extra dependencies.
* Added APPEND option to ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND, Added VERBATIM option to
ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND and ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET
* add EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL option for ADD_LIBRARY and ADD_EXECUTABLE
* Fix automatic computation of binary path to work for subdirectories of out
of source directories. This addresses bug#3592.
* --debug-ouput to cmake that gives stack trace to message send error commands.
The stack trace is no longer there without it.
* + can be in a variable
* Do not replace @VAR@ syntax in list files. This addresses bug #2722
* much faster depend scanning
* do depends on system include directories
* Permission and install directory fixes
* New target property CONFIG_LOCATION (Debug, Release, etc)
* fix exclude from all in VS
* fix code completion problem in KDevelop
* Define MSYS when using msys generator
* fix referencece to projects outside the build tree VS 7,8
* Fix ZERO_CHECK to not always try and rebuild
* Fix Xcode universal binary rebuild problem
* add FILE_IS_NEWER to if command
* Add OPTIONAL to INSTALL command fix [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* add SORT and REVERSE to LIST command
* fix for seg fault bug #3815
* add SYBOLIC as a source file property see SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES
* fix ctest valgrind if no coverage is done
* better message if bogus generator is specified.
* Better FindJava and FindJNI
* Fix doxygen.config for CMake
* add CPACK_MODULE_PATH
* Fix configuration for ctest dashboard targets Experimental, Nightly, etc
* Fix FindDoxygen for mac and app-bundles
* Fix CPack simple install test with NSIS
* Allow EXECUTE_PROCESS to strip trailing white space
* Fix mingw echo in makefiles
* Fix Xcode to not mess up -gdwarf-2
* Fix crash when linking to custom targets.
* Allow HEADER_FILE_ONLY to not compile the file in VS 7 and 8
* Fix mingw out of binary with spaces in the path.
* Fix for sudo make install (partial)
* Allow installed zlib, curl, expat, xmlrpc to be used.
* Add CMakeDependentOption.cmake module
* Allow projects to set install prefix default
* improved Find/Use wxWidgets
* add support for windows dll version numbers
* Fix message for -G when generator does not exist
* Fix html references in help
* Fix version on .exe cygwin
* allow global timeout in ctest
* Fix some odd cases with custom commands in VS 6
* Fix path suffix stuff with lib64 in FIND_* stuff.
* Fix delete in CMakeSetup to not change the current position in the list
* Fix debug stl run of ctest on Mac
* Use #2
