Re: [cmake-developers] Parallel ctest issues on the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform

2016-03-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-29 22:46+0200 Nils Gladitz wrote: On 29.03.2016 21:39, Alan W. Irwin wrote: One of the PLplot developers, Arjen Markus, has just reported to me that ctest -j4 for PLplot hangs on his MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform while ctest works fine. This issue occurred for the mingw64/mingw-w64

[cmake-developers] Parallel ctest issues on the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform

2016-03-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
screwing up on the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform? 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 fo

Re: [cmake-developers] Changes for v3.5.0

2016-02-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
gression in efficiency he found for 3.5.0-rc1 compared to prior versions has now been completely solved for 3.5.0-rc2. My thanks to Bartosz for finding this efficiency regression for 3.5.0-rc1, and my thanks to Brad for fixing it for 3.5.0-rc2. Alan __________ Alan W. Irw

Re: [cmake-developers] Changes for v3.5.0

2016-02-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ance regression" or "Improve internal generator target structure lookup" at <https://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/release>. Are those changes being "cooked" a bit longer or are they already in the release branch under some different title?

Re: [cmake-developers] Namespaces

2016-01-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-01-28 23:25+0100 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Your experience is contrary to mine. For example, in my epa_build project (where I build all the many prerequisites of PLplot) I build a lot of different libraries (such as Qt5 and the

Re: [cmake-developers] Namespaces

2016-01-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ience with find_package might be related to those issues. However, I haven't experienced any major find issues with CMake-3.3.2 so you might want to shift to that version if you aren't using it already. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation wit

Re: [cmake-developers] Namespaces

2016-01-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
that the proper way to deal with third-party libraries with no name contamination from the parent project is simply to build and install them using the ExternalProject approach. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and

Re: [cmake-developers] parallel install of different cmake versions

2015-12-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t Debian application is on Fedora) to select the major CMake version that is required for the package build? Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming a

Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake] How to set _default_ timeout for the ctest command? (fwd)

2015-12-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
user now has full control over all such project timeouts. 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

Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake] How to set _default_ timeout for the ctest command? (fwd)

2015-12-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-12-15 13:53-0500 Ben Boeckel wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:33:38 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2015-12-15 11:20-0500 Ben Boeckel wrote: I think, instead, that --min-timeout and --max-timeout options might be better which allow you to say "this machine is slow; tests may

Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake] How to set _default_ timeout for the ctest command? (fwd)

2015-12-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-12-15 11:20-0500 Ben Boeckel wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 23:01:31 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On the cmake general list, Brad recently answered my original query on this subject and appears to agree with me that that ctest --timeout option should always have the highest priority

Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake] How to set _default_ timeout for the ctest command? (fwd)

2015-12-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
timeout set by the project such as the above TIMEOUT property. If the consensus continues to be that is the desired behaviour it appears some CMake/CTest code changes will be necessary to change to that behaviour. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake] How to set _default_ timeout for the ctest command? (fwd)

2015-12-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
k to set a different _default_ timeout for CTest other than 1500 seconds), I will not be able to figure out what to advise the lapack developers. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.ph

Re: [cmake-developers] Code style auto-formatting

2015-11-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
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 Epheme

Re: [cmake-developers] find_program HINTS no longer preferred over PATH

2015-09-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
and 3.3.y releases? 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 (free

[cmake-developers] What is the difference between "Unix Makefiles" and "MSYS Makefiles" on MSYS2?

2015-07-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
eciate your comments on that possibility before I made such a recommendation. Alan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:25:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan W. Irwin To: cm...@cmake.org Subject: [CMake] Using cmake on the MSYS2 platform(s) Recently, I have found two usefu

Re: [cmake-developers] malware?

2015-07-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
-3.3.0.tar.gz.asc Most important open-source projects (and even many unimportant ones like PLplot, :-) ) routinely apply this security measure for release tarballs, but for some reason up to now, Kitware has not. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with

Re: [cmake-developers] Supporting versioned wx-config in FindwxWidgets.cmake

2015-06-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-08 09:19-0400 Brad King wrote: On 06/06/2015 01:41 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: -find_program(wxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE wx-config +find_program(wxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE wx-config wx-config-3.0 For reference, this was from upstreaming a Fedora patch: http://www.cmake.org

[cmake-developers] Supporting versioned wx-config in FindwxWidgets.cmake

2015-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
config-3.0 be changed to wx-config-3.0 wx-config-2.9 wx-config-2.8 wx-config I could transform this into an official change request, but it is such a no-brainer I hope I don't have to go through that process to get this into cmake-3.3.0 Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astron

Re: [cmake-developers] Probable bug in message output from Modules/Platform/CYGWIN.cmake

2015-04-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-04-28 14:54-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Also, a spurious warning is probably not that big a deal, but if you think the incorrect order of project(...) before cmake_minimum_required(...) could lead to more serious issues now or in the future as Platform code gets more and more complex

Re: [cmake-developers] Probable bug in message output from Modules/Platform/CYGWIN.cmake

2015-04-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-04-28 16:44-0400 Brad King wrote: On 04/28/2015 04:15 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: The problem is I am reporting the problem second-hand, and I don't have access to a Cygwin platform myself. But from the report I received the incorrect warning message occurs each time a different com

Re: [cmake-developers] Probable bug in message output from Modules/Platform/CYGWIN.cmake

2015-04-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-04-28 14:22-0400 Brad King wrote: On 04/27/2015 05:53 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Anybody here got a clue about what is going on? Please strip it down to a minimal example. That will either find the culprit or provide a test case we can use independently. Hi Brad: The problem is I

Re: [cmake-developers] Is there a way to avoid LOCATION property with Qt5?

2015-04-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Nils: Thanks for your quick reply. More below in context. On 2015-04-28 08:45+0200 Nils Gladitz wrote: On 04/28/2015 08:00 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: The Qt5 cmake documentation at <http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/cmake-manual.html> which Steve has referred me to before states you should u

[cmake-developers] Is there a way to avoid LOCATION property with Qt5?

2015-04-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ion of 3.0.2 so I am looking for a CMP0026 NEW solution that works for that version or above for Qt5. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliation

[cmake-developers] Probable bug in message output from Modules/Platform/CYGWIN.cmake

2015-04-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
enerated if the minimum version > 2.8.4. Anybody here got a clue about what is going on? Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the

Re: [cmake-developers] Fortran detection, issue 9220

2015-02-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ed by the same piece of error-processing code, but if that is true this fix should be extremely easy to implement. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Progra

Re: [cmake-developers] Fortran detection, issue 9220

2015-02-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
(Maybe because our warning messages are really obvious when a compiler does not work.) Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeE

Re: [cmake-developers] Fortran detection, issue 9220

2015-02-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-02-10 22:38-0500 Ben Boeckel wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 17:15:33 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: As the originator (almost 6 years ago) of this bug report I am still very much interested in a fundamental solution to give a WARNING message rather than an error if there is any issue with

Re: [cmake-developers] Fortran detection, issue 9220

2015-02-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
hance to look into that possibility yet, but I will do so because an efficient and clean solution for providing a soft landing when a compiler test fails is important for the PLplot project. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Departme

Re: [cmake-developers] Any ideas for accessing the Dart source code?

2014-10-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-10-08 10:05-0400 Brad King wrote: On 10/07/2014 09:23 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I have now looked at the documentation for ctest-3.0.2, and cdash is mentioned a lot more but then so is dart. I think that documentation should be updated to point users exclusively at cdash Help

Re: [cmake-developers] Any ideas for accessing the Dart source code?

2014-10-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
at least mentions that dart is no longer maintained and cdash is the suggested alternative? Currently http://www.cdash.org/overview/ does not mention dart at all which is probably the best approach and what the ctest documentation should do as well. Alan ______ Alan W. I

[cmake-developers] Any ideas for accessing the Dart source code?

2014-10-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t source code is available using svn checkout http://svn.na-mic.org:8000/svn/Dart However, that command times out with "cannot connect to server". Does anyone here know how to access the Dart source or is that gone forever? Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

[cmake-developers] "Contract" testing of CMake

2014-10-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
appreciated as well. 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.

[cmake-developers] [PATCH] Fix infinite loop in file downloads if hash value not a match

2014-09-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
h of the bug tracker for "infinite" shows nothing relevant. See attached patch in "git format-patch" form that fixes the problem for the CMake master branch. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physi

Re: [cmake-developers] --debug-trycompile not working as documented with the results being overwritten

2014-09-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-09-03 09:38-0400 Brad King wrote: On 09/02/2014 03:52 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: just go ahead an fix this documentation bug without going through the normal dance of putting it on the bug tracker, Please construct a proposed patch with "git format-patch" and attach it in

[cmake-developers] --debug-trycompile not working as documented with the results being overwritten

2014-09-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
s really is a useful documentation fix, etc. 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 interi

Re: [cmake-developers] FreeType headers almost there but not quite ...

2014-07-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
discussing such issues. 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

Re: [cmake-developers] Any plans to remove the limitation in command line length for the cmake -E remove command?

2014-05-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-05-16 09:41-0400 Ben Boeckel wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 23:52:18 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Just in case I run into command-length limitations for the cmd environment in other contexts that cannot be solved so neatly, I am also wondering if cmd has a general mechanism (e.g

Re: [cmake-developers] Any plans to remove the limitation in command line length for the cmake -E remove command?

2014-05-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-05-15 21:51-0400 Ben Boeckel wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 13:23:10 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I have recently been reminded that the "cmake -E remove" command has a limitation due to the length of command line that is acceptable to whatever shell is being used. Is

[cmake-developers] Any plans to remove the limitation in command line length for the cmake -E remove command?

2014-05-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to do the same (especially since cmake is already well aware of command-line length limitations for various shell environments in other contexts). So if there is some chance that the cmake developers are willing to deal with this issue, then I am willing to start the ball rolling with a fo

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake --find-package

2014-04-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-04-24 22:41+0200 Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 14:45:45 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2014-04-23 22:40+0200 Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 13:21:39 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2014-04-23 13:21-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote: On 4/23/2014 12:22 PM

Re: [cmake-developers] Please restore --help-full cmake option for version 3

2014-04-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
n a similar way would be equally useful. 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

Re: [cmake-developers] Please restore --help-full cmake option for version 3

2014-04-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-04-24 04:38-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: So in sum, please restore the --help-full CMake 2 functionality (or an approximation to it where you simply dump out all documentation classes to stdout) for CMake-3. I also just discovered that --help-man and --help-html were gone as well for

[cmake-developers] Please restore --help-full cmake option for version 3

2014-04-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
lan __ 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 proj

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake --find-package

2014-04-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-04-23 17:19-0400 Matthew Woehlke wrote: On 2014-04-23 16:21, Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] I keep making a plea for a proper fix to bug 9220 because propagating compiler information (held potentially in a large number of different environment variables and CMake variables for many

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake --find-package

2014-04-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-04-23 22:40+0200 Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 13:21:39 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2014-04-23 13:21-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote: On 4/23/2014 12:22 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: However, if you discover the problem is a general one for --find-package and Qt5, then it

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake --find-package

2014-04-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-04-23 13:21-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote: On 4/23/2014 12:22 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: However, if you discover the problem is a general one for --find-package and Qt5, then it appears that Qt5 might be a good illustrative example to use for your renewed effort at developing a reliable

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake --find-package (was: Roadmap to CMake 3.0)

2014-04-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
kage works properly for me, that would be extremely helpful. However, if you discover the problem is a general one for --find-package and Qt5, then it appears that Qt5 might be a good illustrative example to use for your renewed effort at developing a reliable --find-package capability.

Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake] [ANNOUNCE] CMake 3.0-rc3 now ready for testing!

2014-04-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
is looking pretty good from my perspective, and I would like to thank the development team for their efforts. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliation

[cmake-developers] Misleading documentation for list(APPEND ....) signature

2013-12-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ou do have to make such a check for an empty variable. 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-stat

[cmake-developers] Possible issue with UseQt4.cmake

2013-12-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
minority of Qt-related ones). 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

Re: [cmake-developers] while(1) containing non-fatal errors is an infinite loop

2013-12-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-12-06 09:46-0500 Brad King wrote: On 12/05/2013 03:39 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: But if you replace message(FATAL_ERROR "Should stop loop?") ==> add_subdirectory(non_existent_directory) Okay, so the code in question is: while(1) add_subdirectory(non_existent_directo

[cmake-developers] Fatal errors sometimes lead to infinite while loops. 2.8.12.1 bug?

2013-12-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
d simple example above from an infinite loop into the expected immediate stop. 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

Re: [cmake-developers] Minor regression in --version results for CMake 2.8.12.1 (A FALSE ALARM)

2013-12-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-12-05 12:27-0500 Matthew Woehlke wrote: On 2013-12-05 02:36, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Sorry, this turned out to be a false alarm. Despite "which cmake" telling me I was using cmake-2.8.12.1 [snip] ...which is, of course, why you should always use "type" in bash

Re: [cmake-developers] Minor regression in --version results for CMake 2.8.12.1 (A FALSE ALARM)

2013-12-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-12-04 23:36-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: What happened today was I built cmake-2.8.12.1 and installed it high on the existing PATH without changing that PATH. So the cache was stale and still pointed to 2.8.12 despite the "which cmake" result (pointing to cmake-2.8.12.1) whi

Re: [cmake-developers] Minor regression in --version results for CMake 2.8.12.1 (A FALSE ALARM)

2013-12-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-12-04 19:10-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...]This (very simple) issue is cmake --version emits the string "cmake version 2.8.12" rather than the expected "cmake version 2.8.12.1" This is a regression from previous behaviour. For example, here are the results for cm

[cmake-developers] Minor regression in --version results for CMake 2.8.12.1

2013-12-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
CMake-2.8.12.1 a complete thrashing both on Linux and Wine. From past experience. CMake should survive that with few or no issues, but if I spot anything more than this --version issue, I will let you guys know. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with

Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake 0014609]: cmake -E copy and cmake -E copy_directory commands need an option to NOT follow symlinks on Linux

2013-12-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
es since that model is similar to how the GNU tools treat symlinks and therefore causes the least surprise for Unix users. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programm

[cmake-developers] Documentation of execute_process COMMAND needs work

2013-11-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
me to create a bugtracker item for this issue? 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 fo

Re: [cmake-developers] find PATHS issues on Windows when Linux OS files are accessible

2013-10-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-10-15 10:21-0400 Brad King wrote: On 10/14/2013 02:22 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Therefore, I think a good compromise would be to provide both of these possibilities to users, with the first one being used by default, but with the second one used instead if a specific variable or

Re: [cmake-developers] find PATHS issues on Windows when Linux OS files are accessible

2013-10-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-10-14 11:14-0400 Brad King wrote: On 10/13/2013 7:46 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: bash.exe-3.1$ ls z:/usr/bin/lua z:/usr/bin/lua [snip] -- LUA_EXECUTABLE = /usr/bin/lua This is an obviously incorrect result since /usr/bin/lua does not exist from the Windows system perspective, i.e

[cmake-developers] find PATHS issues on Windows when Linux OS files are accessible

2013-10-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
lly supported Find modules for CMake) so addressing this issue is important. Of course, I could be missing something so I would like some discussion here concerning this issue before I put together an official bug report describing the problem. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

Re: [cmake-developers] CMake libarchive bug? (not new...)

2013-09-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
if this idea is forwarded to the libarchive project as well, they might be willing to make such a straightforward change themselves. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake -E tar not working correctly with xz-compressed tarballs on MSYS

2013-07-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-26 17:02-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2013-07-26 17:03-0400 Brad King wrote: I'll finish the full update and integration into CMake when I get a chance. When you do that please make sure the small file-pattern patch to ExternalProject.cmake given at http://public.kitware.co

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake -E tar not working correctly with xz-compressed tarballs on MSYS

2013-07-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
that your fix to allow unpacking of *.tar.xz tarballs on MSYS can be used via ExternalProject_Add. The file-pattern patch also allows unpacking of *.tar.xz tarballs on Unix via ExternalProject_Add. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Departme

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake -E tar not working correctly with xz-compressed tarballs on MSYS

2013-07-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-26 17:03-0400 Brad King wrote: On 07/26/2013 01:57 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: So would you be willing to import v3.1.2-40-g4b5f651 into CMake to see if that solves the cmake -E tar issue that I found with xz-compressed tarballs? We've been due for a libarchive update anyway. I

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake -E tar not working correctly with xz-compressed tarballs on MSYS

2013-07-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-25 16:16-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2013-07-25 15:31-0400 Brad King wrote: On 07/24/2013 03:27 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: The first priority is to verify on Microsoft Windows that this is actually an issue using the the simple test I outlined in my previous post. At a MSYS

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake -E tar not working correctly with xz-compressed tarballs on MSYS

2013-07-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-25 15:31-0400 Brad King wrote: On 07/24/2013 03:27 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: The first priority is to verify on Microsoft Windows that this is actually an issue using the the simple test I outlined in my previous post. At a MSYS prompt under MS Windows this works: $ cat a.tar.xz

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake -E tar not working correctly with xz-compressed tarballs on MSYS

2013-07-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-24 13:18-0400 Brad King wrote: On 07/21/2013 04:19 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: So on MSYS platforms the command-line tools are working fine for manipulating xz-compressed tarballs, but cmake -E tar xfz test.tar.xz fails (and also appears to be using the unxz command-line tool that is

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake -E tar not working correctly with xz-compressed tarballs on MSYS

2013-07-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
rchive may be all that is required to solve this cmake -E tar issue for *.tar.xz files on MSYS (assuming the issue is confirmed as above). Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.ph

Re: [cmake-developers] cmake -E tar not working correctly with xz-compressed tarballs on MSYS

2013-07-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
hive drops back to the command line when necessary. However, to help me generate the appropriate cmake patch I need some further guidance to where in Utilities/cmlibarchive/libarchive I should be looking. Alan On 2013-07-21 13:19-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I created an xz-compressed test tarbal

[cmake-developers] cmake -E tar not working correctly with xz-compressed tarballs on MSYS

2013-07-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
/v2.8/cmake-2.8.11.2-win32-x86.zip"; unzip cmake-2.8.11.2-win32-x86.zip 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 e

Re: [cmake-developers] How to set environment variable for custom command.

2013-07-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
number of different generators/platforms, e.g., "Unix Makefiles" on Linux, "Ninja" (both on Linux and for MinGW/MSYS/Windows), "MSYS Makefiles", "MinGW Makefiles", and "NMake Makefiles Jom". Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astr

Re: [cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs

2013-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-12 16:27-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: So since the KitWare developers have to make a decision about this security issue for their own distribution of the CMake binary version for Windows, I was asking them for a recommendation for a trusted version of ssh for Windows platforms that I

Re: [cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs

2013-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
y question. Who better to ask than your open-source friends for a recommendation of a trustworthy supplier of the Windows binary version of the openssl library? Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronom

Re: [cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs

2013-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-12 23:41+0200 Eric Noulard wrote: 2013/7/12 Alan W. Irwin : I just double-checked with ldd that Debian wheezy cmake links to libcurl-gnutls.so (linked to the gnutls library to provide the SSL capabilities) rather than libcurl.so (linked to the openssl library to provide the SSL

Re: [cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs

2013-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
u download some Windows binary from a location you trust, but what location is that? Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with

Re: [cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs

2013-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
n-house curl build would be quite useful. Finally, if by chance the CMake build is configured so there is no SSL support then a warning message should be issued. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ

Re: [cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs

2013-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
brary build in house (similar to the way there is an in-house version of libcurl), I think CMake could be made a lot less fragile with respect to downloading. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Un

Re: [cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs [SOLVED]

2013-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-11 16:30-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: These commands file(DOWNLOAD "http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.32/glib-2.32.1.tar.xz"; "/home/software/plplot_svn/HEAD/plplot_allura/cmake/build_projects/cmake_downloaded_glib-2.32.1.tar.xz" SHOW_PROGRESS STATUS st

Re: [cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs

2013-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-11 16:30-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: These commands file(DOWNLOAD "http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.32/glib-2.32.1.tar.xz"; "/home/software/plplot_svn/HEAD/plplot_allura/cmake/build_projects/cmake_downloaded_glib-2.32.1.tar.xz" SHOW_PROGRESS STATUS st

Re: [cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs

2013-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
tional enhancements like yours. But it also appears that CMake commands such as file(DOWNLOAD ... that are used by the ExternalProject module need some work (e.g., for *.tar.xz files that are downloaded by file(DOWNLOAD... ). So I will return to that topic in the next post. Alan _____

[cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs

2013-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
roject.cmake should be okay for build_projects (where I have discovered that many downloadable source tarballs are in the *.tar.xz form). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww

[cmake-developers] A CMake representation issue for a list with one empty element

2013-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
because the file had trailing but meaningful empty lines. I obviously can work around this issue with special logic, but it would be good if that special workaround was not needed for the case of a list with one empty element. Which is why I have brought up this issue for discussion here. Alan _

[cmake-developers] [Off Topic] test of tarball attachment

2013-06-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
application/x-gtar-compressed. This is a test that solution works in general when the attachment is sent via this list without specifying their specific e-mail addresses as well. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and

Re: [cmake-developers] Peculiar issue for "NMake Makefiles JOM" (GOT IT TO WORK)

2013-06-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
.txt:4 (project): To use the JOM generator, cmake must be run from a shell that can use the compiler cl from the command line. This environment does not contain INCLUDE, LIB, or LIBPATH, and these must be set for the cl compiler to work. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical re

Re: [cmake-developers] Peculiar issue for "NMake Makefiles JOM"

2013-06-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
the MinGW compiler suite. I have attached the build tree created from scratch from the above cmake command. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affi

[cmake-developers] "NMake Makefiles JOM" issues with MinGW compiler

2013-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e is also an issue on the Microsoft version of Windows) to see what happens for the Microsoft version of Windows? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming a

[cmake-developers] Undocumented effect of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX on find commands

2013-06-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ed this undocumented behaviour by accident with the build_projects project (where all builds have a common install prefix specified by CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX). If this behaviour is to be relied upon (which I hope is the case) it should be documented. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astro

Re: [cmake-developers] The "Ninja" generator errors out for any project that enables Fortran

2013-06-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-13 21:24-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote: On 6/13/2013 7:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: If anyone here is game to do a quick fix for the "Ninja" generator so that is supports Fortran, I would be happy to help out by testing the fix using the build_projects project on the Linu

[cmake-developers] The "Ninja" generator errors out for any project that enables Fortran

2013-06-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e platforms that are accessible to me. 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 inter

[cmake-developers] OUTPUT_NAME bug that appears for the case of the "Ninja" generator on Windows (Wine)

2013-06-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
f the ninja build rule syntax) in the generated ninja build rules that are contained in the build_dir part of the attached tarball. Would someone here please take a look to see if they can spot the issue? (I don't currently have the required ninja build rule syntax expertise because I just star

Re: [cmake-developers] Peculiar issue for "NMake Makefiles JOM"

2013-06-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
MSYS make build tools are something I would like to be in position to discover. So I hope whatever is wrong in the attached results will be easy to figure out. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of

Re: [cmake-developers] Peculiar issue for "NMake Makefiles JOM"

2013-06-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-07 17:44-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote: On 6/6/2013 9:44 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: In this particular case I have specified gcc using CMAKE_C_COMPILER. That bombs with the message -- Check for working C compiler: z:/home/wine/newstart/MinGW-4.7.2/bin/gcc.exe -- broken Did you look

Re: [cmake-developers] Peculiar issue for "NMake Makefiles JOM"

2013-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-06 20:11-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote: On 6/6/2013 6:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: http://releases.qt-project.org/jom/jom_1_0_13.zip). Are there known problems with that jom release and how it interacts with Makefiles produced by the "NMake Makefiles JOM" generator? You could tr

Re: [cmake-developers] Peculiar issue for "NMake Makefiles JOM"

2013-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-06 15:35-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I have just now tried the "NMake Makefiles JOM" generator for my build_projects project, and I ran into a peculiar issue. For example (from the "jom VERBOSE=1 build_ndiff" output) and with single lines split up for e-mail pu

[cmake-developers] Peculiar issue for "NMake Makefiles JOM"

2013-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
m be put into a debugging mode so you can see exactly what commands it executes (which is a somewhat different than VERBOSE=1 results which lists the commands that jom _should_ be executing)? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and A

Re: [cmake-developers] Questions concerning using "MinGW Makefiles" when MSYS (without sh.exe) is on the PATH

2013-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
on Windows. Can somebody give me a quick cookbook of what to do there, especially what version of ninja and what version of CMake should work well together on Windows? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phy

[cmake-developers] Questions concerning using "MinGW Makefiles" when MSYS (without sh.exe) is on the PATH

2013-06-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
could be due to something else other than MSYS (without sh.exe) being on the PATH so I am continuing to investigate. But to eliminate or confirm that MSYS (without sh.exe) is the issue for the bad "MinGW Makefiles" libharu build, your comments on the above two questions would be most

Re: [cmake-developers] Time truncation bug in cmake -E touch

2013-05-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-05-30 08:28-0400 Brad King wrote: On 05/30/2013 08:26 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: To illustrate the problem on Linux: wine@raven> touch test1; cmake -E touch test2; touch test3 wine@raven> ls -lrt --time-style=full-iso test[123] -rw-r--r-- 1 wine wine 0 2013-05-30 04:18:25.000

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