[cmake-developers] Thanks for the nice way that CMP0054 was implemented

2016-11-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Nils: According to "git log" you were the author of the first commit that referred to CMP0054 so I wanted to publicly thank you and others that helped you with CMP0054 for the very nice way that is implemented in practice for developers of CMake-based build systems like me. Note the PLplot

[cmake-developers] Docs for CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT

2016-11-19 Thread Craig Scott
There seems to be a number of references online to a variable named CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT which is recommended for checking if CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX has been overridden or not. This variable is not mentioned in CMake's documentation, but some of those online references claim