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CMake 2.8.8 available for download

David Cole — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:08:32 -0400

On behalf of myself, Ken, Bill, Brad, Alex, Zach, Ben, Eike, Eric and the rest of the CMake team from all around the world, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.8 is now available for download at:

http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D

It is also available from the usual download links found on the CMake web site:

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

Some of the notable changes in this release are:

per target include directories via the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target property
new Ninja generator on Linux
CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: build MSVC compatible dlls with MinGW gfortran
CMakePackageConfigHelpers: an easy way to generate a package config file for your package

(do not write a new Find module, provide a package config file)

various find_package improvements: MODULE mode, clearer error messages
support for Xcode 4.3 (which has a new default location, and a new directory structure)
update libarchive to newer upstream version: "libarchive 3.0.2-r4051 (reduced)"
new OBJECT_LIBRARY target type, CMake flavored "convenience libraries"
major Find module clean up effort: consistent use of FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS, add version number variables
much improved CPack documentation, see "cpack --help-command" and "cpack --help-variable"
and, as always, various minor bug fixes

Following is the complete list of changes in this release. Please try this version of CMake on your projects and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker.

Thanks for helping to make CMake the best cross-platform build system generator out there!

-Dave

Changes in CMake 2.8.8 (since 2.8.8-rc2)
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Brad King (1):
      CheckIncludeFiles: Shorten check description message

David Cole (3):
      CPackNSIS: Rewrite variable documentation to make it more readable.
      OS X: Use correct extra path when searching for applicaton bundles (#13066)
      OS X: Mark find_program results as advanced

Eric NOULARD (1):
      Fix some doc typo and add an undocumented var.

Kashif Rasul (1):
      OS X: Use OSX_DEVELOPER_ROOT for app search path (#13066)

Rolf Eike Beer (1):
      FindBoost: add support for 1.49 and 1.50

Changes in CMake 2.8.8-rc2 (since 2.8.8-rc1)
--------------------------------------------
Alex Neundorf (4):
      make cmLocalGenerator::EscapeForCMake() static
      automoc: fix #13018, proper cmake escaping to avoid false rebuilds
      automoc: add define to test which caused bug #13018
      fix #13054: support OBJECT libraries in Eclipse

Ben Boeckel (1):
      Create granular targets for Ninja generators too

Brad King (6):
      CTest.UpdateHG: Fix repo URL for leading slash
      Always compile sources with known language
      Classify known header file extensions as headers
      VS: Add CMakeLists.txt re-run rules at start of generation
      Test generated module .def files
      Ninja: Fix module .def file path conversion

David Cole (2):
      CMake: Clarify SUFFIX target property documentation.
      Xcode: Pay attention to custom configuration types (#13082)

Peter Collingbourne (1):
      Ninja: Substitute <OBJECT> and <CMAKE_C_COMPILER> in depfile flags

Rolf Eike Beer (2):
      FILE: mention that TO_CMAKE_PATH also handles list delimiters
      FIND_LIBRARY: document FIND_LIBRARY_USE_LIB64_PATHS

Sean McBride (1):
      automoc: include <unistd.h> on Apple to get pathconf

Tom Hughes (1):
      Override topdir from rpm command line seems necessary on Amazon linux.

Changes in CMake 2.8.8-rc1 (since 2.8.7)
----------------------------------------
Aaron C. Meadows (1):
      Visual Studio: Allow setting Single Byte Character Set (#12189)

Alex Neundorf (34):
      GNUInstallDirs: add support for Debian multiarch
      FindRuby: fix usage of RUBY_VERSION_MAJOR (#12172)
      FindRuby: add more possible library names (for ubuntu, #12172)
      FindRuby.cmake: add more debug output
      fix FeatureSummary for REQUIRED packages, they were reported as OPTIONAL
      FindGetText: fix multiple targets with the same name problem (CMP0002)
      fix #6976: FindX11 also searches for X11_Xxf86vm_LIB
      GenerateExportHeader: use double quotes around _gcc_version
      -remove trailing whitespace
      -don't pull in CheckTypeSize.cmake from the cmake which is being built
      bootstrap: move while() and endwhile() into the bootstrap build
      Check*.cmake: Expand imported targets in CMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES
      find_package: print error if an invalid CONFIGS name is used
      find_package: rename NoModule to UseFindModules
      find_package: improve error message when no Find module is present
      find_package: add MODULE mode to use only Find-modules
      find_package: add CONFIG mode keyword alias for NO_MODULE
      find_package: mention requested version number in error message
      add CMakePackageConfigHelpers: configure_package_config_file()
      wrap write_basic_config_version_file as write_basic_package_version_file()
      find_package: error out if REQUIRED Config has not been found
      write_basic_package_version_file(): improve documentation
      write_basic_package_version_file: add ExactVersion mode
      WriteBasicConfigVersionFile: add test for ExactVersion mode
      find_package: allow <pkg>Config.cmake to set <pkg>_FOUND to FALSE
      find_package: add test for setting Foo_FOUND to FALSE in a Config file
      find_package: additional test for checking the error message
      find_package: add OPTIONAL_COMPONENTS keyword
      FPHSA(): add missing "]" to documentation
      find_package: add documentation for OPTIONAL_COMPONENTS
      FPHSA(): add HANDLE_COMPONENTS option
      add macro check_required_components() to configure_package_config_file()
      Eclipse: fix #13036, make version detection work with symlinks
      guard eCos.cmake against multiple inclusion (#12987)

Alexandru Ciobanu (2):
      CTest: Detect Xcode error "Command ... failed with exit code"
      CTest: Match valgrind errors with "points to" (#12922)

Alexey Ozeritsky (1):
      FindBLAS/FindLAPACK: Work with MKL version 10.3 (#12924, #12925)

Artur Kedzierski (1):
      Add CURL_CA_BUNDLE option for SSL support (#12946)

Bill Hoffman (12):
      Add CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory to use MinGW gfortran in VS
      VSGNUFortran: Add special case for SunPro Fortran runtime library
      VSGNUFortran: Disable test in special cases
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Make IMPORTED targets GLOBAL
      Use upgraded qt on linux build machine.
      Teach CTest what a ninja error looks like.
      Allow two cmake_add_fortran_subdirectory calls in the same project.
      Add ability to include a file in a project via a cache variable.
      Fix typo in error message, and remove redundent test.
      Ninja: Add a cache option CMAKE_ENABLE_NINJA to enable the ninja generator.
      Ninja: Fix for PDB files with spaces in the path.
      Fix FindMPI for the intel compiler on linux by looking in implict directories.

Bjoern Ricks (1):
      Fix crash if app bundle executeable couldn't be found

Brad King (138):
      CheckCCompilerFlag: Generalize "but not for C" case (#12633)
      complex: Remove ancient unused ComplexRelativePaths test
      complex: Sync Tests/ComplexOneConfig with Tests/Complex
      complex: Remove dynamic loader tests
      complex: Move GeneratedFileStream test to CMakeLibTests
      complex: Simplify test for single-character exe name
      complex: Move cmSystemTools::UpperCase test to CMakeLibTests
      complex: Remove test dependence on cmSystemTools
      complex: Remove unused option to test CMakeLib
      Intel: Fix Windows per-config Fortran flags (#12642)
      libarchive: Remove our copy to make room for new import
      libarchive: Add .gitattributes for indentation with tab
      libarchive: Add README-CMake.txt
      libarchive: Do not build subdirectories not in reduced snapshot
      libarchive: Remove -Wall -Werror from build with GNU
      libarchive: Build one static cmlibarchive for CMake
      libarchive: Include cm_zlib.h to get zlib used by CMake
      Handle libarchive API change in archive_read_data_block
      Configure libarchive build within CMake
      libarchive: Install COPYING with CMake documentation
      libarchive: Port to OSF operating system
      libarchive: Fix typo in CheckFileOffsetBits
      libarchive: Implement custom lseek for Borland
      libarchive: Declare mbstate_t and wcrtomb for Borland
      libarchive: Cast constants to int64_t instead of using LL suffix
      libarchive: Workaround case-insensitive symbols on Borland
      libarchive: Clean up configuration within CMake build
      libarchive: Cast mode constants to mode_t in case it is signed
      libarchive: Fix Windows NT API usage in VS 6
      libarchive: Suppress compiler warnings
      libarchive: Fix var decl after statement in archive_string.c
      libarchive: Do not use ST_NOATIME if not defined
      libarchive: Check for 'struct statvfs' member 'f_iosize'
      libarchive: Do not use MNT_NOATIME if not defined
      libarchive: Use Apple copyfile.h API only if available
      libarchive: Remove hard-coded build configuration
      libarchive: Cleanup after ZLIB_WINAPI check
      libarchive: Define _XOPEN_SOURCE=500 on HP-UX
      libarchive: Include linux/types.h before linux/fiemap.h
      libarchive: Rename isoent_rr_move_dir parameter isoent => curent
      libarchive: Suppress PathScale compiler warnings
      libarchive: Avoid bogus conversion warning from PGI compiler
      libarchive: Set .gitattributes to allow trailing whitespace
      libarchive: Update README-CMake.txt for new snapshot
      libarchive: Restore CMake 2.6.3 as minimum version
      bootstrap: Update copyright year in version report
      bootstrap: Re-implement command line option processing
      bootstrap: Forward options after '--' to cmake
      VS10: Fix /pdb option vcxproj element name (#12328)
      Add framework to detect compiler version with its id (#12408)
      Detect GNU compiler version with its id (#6251)
      Detect MSVC compiler version with its id
      Detect Intel compiler version with its id (#11937)
      Detect Borland compiler version with its id
      Detect IBM XL compiler version with its id
      Detect PGI compiler version with its id
      Detect Clang compiler version with its id
      Detect Watcom compiler version with its id
      Detect SunPro compiler version with its id
      Detect HP compiler version with its id
      Document compiler version macro formats used for detection
      Detect SGI MIPSpro compiler version with its id
      ExternalProject: Fix git.cmd version detection
      ExternalProject: Update copyright year
      Include bzlib.h consistently across CMake build (#10950)
      FindMPI: Append MPI C++ library correctly in non-compiler case (#12874)
      Add infrastructure for CMake-only tests
      Tolerate cycles in shared library link interfaces (#12647)
      cmInstallCommand: Fix line length for style
      cmake-mode.el: Indent after multiline argument (#12908)
      Clarify IMPORTED_ target property documentation
      Optionally allow IMPORTED targets to be globally visible
      Add test covering imported target scope rules
      VS: Simplify ;-separated attribute value parsing
      Fix CXX/Fortran MODULE flags when enabled before C (#12929)
      Remove unused test code
      Allow directory names containing '=' and warn if necessary (#12934)
      Add CheckLanguage module
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Allow full paths to directories
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Fix documentation format and typos
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Find gfortran in PATH
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Validate gfortran architecture
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Always parse arguments
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Add NO_EXTERNAL_INSTALL option
      libarchive: Workaround mbsnrtowcs assertion failure on old glibc
      Recognize OpenBSD versioned .so names (#12954)
      try_compile: Use random executable file name (#12957)
      Rename Modules/Platform/Windows-{Borland => Embarcadero}.cmake
      Recognize Embarcadero compiler (#12604)
      Factor cmInstallType out of cmTarget::TargetType
      Add infrastructure for CMakeCommands tests
      find_package: Reject mixed use of MODULE- and CONFIG-only options
      find_package: Optionally warn when implicitly using Config mode
      find_package: Test error and warning messages in failure cases
      bootstrap: Convert MSYS paths to Windows format (#13001)
      CTest.UpdateHG: Fix repo URL for local filesystem (#13001)
      cmcurl: Do not hard-coded Windows check results for MinGW (#13001)
      CheckSourceTree: Remove CVS checkout support (#13001)
      Fix MSYS CVS local test repo path format (#13001)
      find_package: Test that REQUIRED aborts processing correctly
      Remove unused partial OBJECT_FILES property implementation
      VS: Simplify object name computation
      Hide Makefile local object info inside local generator
      KWIML: Make test_INT robust to #define-d int#_t and INT#_C
      Add stronger infrastructure for CMake-only tests
      Use generalized RunCMake test infrastrucure for find_package test
      Use generalized RunCMake test infrastrucure for build_command test
      Document Fortran_MODULE_DIRECTORY as OUTPUT only (#13034)
      Ninja: Constify use of cmCustomCommand
      Ninja: Avoid using 'this' in member initializers
      Write CMakeCache.txt atomically (#13040)
      Add cmGeneratorTarget to represent a target during generation
      Create a cmGeneratorTarget for each cmTarget during generation
      Simplify cmMakefileTargetGenerator using cmGeneratorTarget
      Simplify cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator using cmGeneratorTarget
      Pre-compute object file names before Makefile generation
      Pre-compute object file names before VS project generation
      Remove unused cmSourceGroup method
      Rename/constify build-time config placeholder lookup
      Pre-compute and store target object directory in cmGeneratorTarget
      Add OBJECT_LIBRARY target type
      Build object library targets in Makefiles
      Build object library targets in VS
      Add $<TARGET_OBJECTS:...> expression to use an object library
      Test OBJECT library success cases
      Test OBJECT library failure cases
      Test OBJECT library language propagation
      Test OBJECT library use without other sources
      Document OBJECT library type in add_library command
      Simplify cmNinjaTargetGenerator using cmGeneratorTarget
      Pre-compute object file names before Ninja generation
      Build object library targets in Ninja
      Ninja: Honor $<TARGET_OBJECTS:...> source expressions
      find_package: Test rejection of required+optional components
      Simplify cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator source classification
      VS10: Fix external objects generated outside target (#13047)
      Fix ObjectLibrary test on Watcom
      KWIML: Avoid conflict with C++11 user-defined literals

Christian Andersson (1):
      FindPythonLibs: Search for single-user installs on Windows

Christopher Sean Morrison (1):
      cmake-mode.el: Make indentation case-insensitive (#12995)

Clinton Stimpson (14):
      GetPrerequisites: Add support for @rpath on Mac OS X.
      GetPrerequisites: Add support for @rpath on Mac OS X.
      GetPrerequisites: Add test for @rpath support.
      Fix new BundleUtilities test failure on Mac 10.4.x
      Fix BundleUtilities test failure with space in build path.
      cmake-gui: Improve interrupt granularity to fix bug 12649.
      FindQt4: clarify warning message about incorrect Qt installation.
      FindQt4: Add include directories for lupdate.
      Fix paths/hints for finding qtmain.
      DragNDrop: Fix problem with relocated files in Xcode 4.3
      Add test for DeployQt4.cmake
      Fix for Qt4Deploy on some test machines.
      Remove QtGui dependency in Qt4Deploy test and verify QtSql existance.
      DeployQt4: Add path to Qt dlls on Windows.

Daniel Nelson (1):
      CPack Add top level directory in component install for Archive Generators

David Cole (33):
      Begin post-2.8.7 development
      Release: Increase timeout for slow-testing cygwin build
      Update dashmacmini2 release script to use Qt 4.6.3
      Update dashmacmini2 release script to use Qt 4.8.0
      Tests: Update drop site value for the Trilinos contract test
      Update version of Qt for dashmacmini5 produced release binaries
      CTestCustom: Suppress clang warning on the dashboard
      CMake: Eliminate cmMakefile::IncludeDirectories
      Remove cmMakefile::GetIncludeDirectories
      Make search paths ordered and unique
      Call ExpandVariablesInString for each target's INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
      Update the documentation regarding INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.
      Fix compiler error reported on older Borland dashboard.
      Fix compiler warning reported on older Borland dashboard.
      Fix shadowed variable warning on dashboard results
      Remove trailing white space
      Use correct "requires" line in cygwin setup hint file
      VS6: Avoid _MBCS define when _SBCS is defined (#12189)
      VS6: Avoid SBCS test on VS6 (#12189)
      Suppress warnings occurring on the dashboards using the PGI compiler.
      CPack: Fix retry logic when calls to hdiutil fail
      Ninja: CMake: Adapt Ninja generator for per-target include dirs
      Ninja: Add friend struct so it can access the private ConvertToNinjaPath.
      Xcode: Detect new default locations of Xcode 4.3 bits and pieces (#12621)
      CPack: Use real path to PackageMaker to find its version file (#12621)
      Xcode: Re-factor code into GetObjectsNormalDirectory method
      Xcode: Re-factor some existing methods into "FromPath" variants
      Add a default source group for object files.
      Allow txt files as ExtraSources in object library targets
      Pre-compute object file names before Xcode generation
      Build object library targets in Xcode
      Xcode: Honor $<TARGET_OBJECTS:...> source expressions
      Tests: Relax restrictions on version variable contents

Deborah Pickett (1):
      CPackRPM flag direcories with %dir in the generated spec file

Droscy (1):
      FindCxxTest: Add support for CxxTest 4 (#13022)

Eric NOULARD (41):
      Document undocumented (but existing) cpack options (fix #0010134)
      Enhance bash completion file for cmake and ctest
      Do not add the content of a file if it's a symlink.
      CPackArchive restore default behavior and provide new variable.
      CPackNSIS fix #0012935 switch from LOG_WARNING to avoid final error.
      CPack begin the implementation of --help-command* and --help-variables*
      Implement simple CMake script comment markup language.
      CPack Documentation extraction from CMake script begins to work
      Update bash completion file in order to handle new CPack doc options.
      Suppress unused var, beautify code, avoid 1 extra newline.
      Fix potential bad memory access, thanks to Eike
      Calm down compiler warning about unused var
      Really avoid compiler warning about unused vars
      Fix another compiler warning due to a typo
      Make the load of script documentation more efficient and dynamic.
      Example of builtin variable documentation (i.e. only used in C++ source code).
      Add missing section markup for CPackComponent
      Create getDocumentedModulesListInDir which may be used in other context.
      Fix non existent std::string::clear on VS6
      Avoid discovering system infos for documentation. Adding some path is enough.
      Dynamically add documentation section specified in documented script.
      Add structured documentation for NSIS
      Add structure documentation for CPack Bundle generator
      Suppress unecessary (now empty) doc sections
      Correct copy/paste section name mistake
      Put CPack DMG and PackageMaker doc in separate files
      More documentation concerning CPack Components
      Fix typo in end markup
      Try to fix compile error on Win32-vs70
      Do not build RPM if path of the build tree contains space
      Fix layout of the CPack Bundle documentation
      Fix CPack Drag and Drop generator documentation layout.
      Review and update CPack variable documentation.
      Update CPackConfig template.
      Provide template for CPack Cygwin generator specific variables.
      Update CPack PackageMaker variable doc layout
      Typo: Add missing ##end for ##module
      Fix some typos in CPACK_SET_DESTDIR doc
      Add some missing CPACK_NSIS_xxx doc and move some to common CPack section.
      CPack STGZ put execute permission on all packages files (component case)
      Handle CPACK_MONOLITHIC_INSTALL in some rare use cases.

Eugene Golushkov (1):
      VS: Add support for WinRT project properties (#12930)

James Bigler (1):
      Added support for curand, cusparse, npp, nvcuenc and nvcuvid libraries.

Jason Erb (1):
      FindwxWidgets: Add webview library (#12636)

LibArchive Upstream (2):
      libarchive 3.0.1-r3950 (reduced)
      libarchive 3.0.2-r4051 (reduced)

Matthias Kretz (1):
      Improve checks for Open64 and g++ incompatible flags (#12119)

Mattias Helsing (1):
      CPack: Fix NSIS handling of privileged users (#12923)

Michael Wild (1):
      GenerateExportHeader: Fix wrong use of IS_ABSOLUTE (#12645)

Mike McQuaid (5):
      Don't use QT_LIBRARIES_PLUGINS by default.
      Fix mismatched arguments.
      Fix bad plugin paths.
      Ensure libs are passed to BundleUtilities.
      Fix plugin installation issues.

Modestas Vainius (3):
      various typo and formatting fixes in manual pages (#12975)
      KWIML: Teach ABI.h that MIPS is biendian
      Tests: Escape metachars before embedding paths into the regex (#12999)

Nicolas Despres (5):
      ccmake: Factor clear line.
      ccmake: Extend clear line.
      java: Factor jar output path.
      java: Add CMAKE_JAVA_TARGET_OUTPUT_DIR optional variable.
      java: Add CMAKE_JAVA_JAR_ENTRY_POINT optional variable.

Peter Collingbourne (19):
      Add cmSystemTools::TrimWhitespace function
      Add executable with exports flag support to cmLocalGenerator::GetTargetFlags
      Provide dependency file flags to generator
      Ninja: Add the Ninja generator
      Ninja: Fix a 79-col violation
      Ninja: Remove some default arguments
      Ninja: Appease various compilers
      Ninja: Partially revert "win fixes: escape back slash/colon, use cd. as cmd.exe nop"
      Ninja: Identifier encoding rules for ' ' and ':'
      Ninja: Backslash rules for Windows
      Ninja: Shell encode paths used in "cd" commands
      Ninja: Shell encode various CMake invocations
      Ninja: Shell encode the command used in custom commands
      Ninja: Import library support for Windows
      Ninja: Add a missed license header
      Ninja: Use cmSystemTools::ExpandListArgument to split compile/link commands
      Ninja: Remove an unnecessary variable
      Ninja: add support for OBJECT_OUTPUTS, fix PrecompiledHeader test case
      Ninja: shell escape $(CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR) and $(CMAKE_BINARY_DIR)

Peter Kuemmel (12):
      Find VC Express during default generator selection (#12917)
      Ninja: win fixes: escape back slash/colon, use cd. as cmd.exe nop
      Ninja: don't define MSVC_IDE when using the ninja generator
      Ninja: also build ninja support on Windows
      Ninja: add some hacks for Windows
      Ninja: disable unfinished Windows ninja support
      Ninja: mark the Windows specific hacks with a comment only
      Ninja: windows msvc: create for each target a .pdb file
      Ninja: ensure the output dir exists at compile time
      Ninja: add .def file support
      Ninja: add /DEF: flag to linker call
      Ninja: Fix <OBJECT_DIR> substitution

Philip Lowman (5):
      FindProtobuf: Merge patch that allows extra import dirs
      FindProtobuf: Update documentation comment for 2.8.8
      Findosg: New modules for osgQt and osgPresentation
      FindALSA: Fix incorrect include path detection
      FindALSA: Fix version detection after last commit

Rolf Eike Beer (95):
      remove reference to CVS directory when installing files
      CheckSymbolExists: force the compiler to keep the referenced symbol
      add a test for Check{,CXX}SymbolExists
      FindOpenSSL: improve version number handling
      FindOpenSSL: only try to parse opensslv.h if it exists
      FindOpenSSL: also parse version number define with uppercase letters
      GenerateExportHeader test: add newlines before end of file
      add a test that loops through most Find* modules
      AllFindModules test: keep complete output
      AllFindModules test: also check Qt3 modules if Qt4 is not found
      FindPythonInterp: make version selectable
      FindPythonInterp: fix version parsing
      LoadCommand test: cleanup
      FindThreads: Try pthreads with no special option first (#11333)
      fix uninitialized var in if(NOT foo bar STREQUAL "foo bar")
      use pkg_check_modules() quiet in other modules
      FindLibXml2: support version selection
      FindGnuTLS: partly support version selection
      FindGit: support version number
      FindCups: major overhaul
      FindEXPAT: support version number
      FindCURL: support version selection
      FindFLEX: fix version parsing for old flex versions
      FindFLEX: fix version parsing when the executable is quoted
      FindJasper: find debug libraries
      FindJasper: support version number
      FindBZip2: add support for version checking
      FindBZip2: add support for debug libraries (#12867)
      FindImageMagick: make use of more FPHSA features
      FindPNG: support version selection
      FindRuby: do not blindly set version to 1.8.0
      FindTclsh: support version selection
      SelectLibraryConfigurations: do not output identical configurations
      FindLua51: add version support
      FindTIFF: support version selection
      FindCURL: detect version number also for older versions
      FindLibXml2: detect version when PkgConfig is not used
      FindPostgreSQL: support version selection
      FindOpenSSL: properly parse the hex version components
      FindBISON: add a version expression for GNU Bison 1.x
      FindPythonInterp: try harder to get a version number
      FindJasper: fix library name
      FindGnuplot: add version selection
      FindALSA: support version selection
      FindGettext: support version selection
      CheckCXXCompilerFlag test: make it a CMakeOnly test
      CMakeOnly.AllFindModules: clean up the Qt3/Qt4 code
      CMakeOnly.AllFindModules: always check FindQt
      CMakeOnly.AllFindModules: suppress two modules from testing
      CMakeOnly.AllFindModules: require version for some modules
      CheckIncludeFiles: fix status output
      FindPerl{,Libs}: move version detection into FindPerl
      FindLibArchive: support version selection
      FindX11: also search for Xmu (#12447)
      detect "pgfortran" as PGI Fortran compiler (#12425)
      FindSDL*: use FPHSA (#12467)
      AllFindModules test: do not enforce GNUPLOT version
      FindPerlLibs: properly detect libperl on Windows (#12224)
      CTest: mark all gcov covered files as covered
      FindGLUT: honor REQUIRED (#12466)
      FindRuby: clean up querying variables from Ruby
      FindLibXslt: support version selection
      Tests: document where to put tests
      FindPkgConfig: support version selection of pkg-config itself
      fix the same typos as found by Debian in other places, too
      Find_library(): allow searching for versioned shared objects
      FindFreetype: support version selection
      AllFindModules test: expect more modules to have a version number available
      FindOpenMP: do not fail if only C or CXX is enabled (#11910)
      FindOpenMP: try the most likely flags first
      FindOpenMP: simplify check for enabled languages
      UseSWIG: clean up string compares
      FindPython{Interp,Libs}: document Python_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS as input
      FindPythonLibs: make the version selection work as for PythonInterp
      FindPythonLibs: get the exact version of the found library (#3080)
      FindPythonLibs: put debug libraries into PYTHON_LIBRARIES
      FindPythonLibs: stop scanning when libraries are found
      Check{C,CXX}CompilerFlag: detect ICC error messages
      GenerateExportHeader: remove unneeded code
      GenerateExportHeader: improve compiler identification
      FindOpenSceneGraph: give every message() with an explicit level
      FindHSPELL: set HSPELL_VERSION_STRING
      FindImageMagick: fix fail if no components were given
      FindPythonInterp: rework the version detection
      document when version detection will not work
      AllFindModules test: once again expand version checking
      improve error message on a stray "endwhile()"
      add testcases for while()/endwhile() errors
      reflect that the QtAutomoc depends on QtGui
      FindQt3: fix warning when Qt3 is not found
      FindQt3: fix version extraction for versions with letters
      FindQt3: let FPHSA handle the version selection
      FindQt3: fix detection of Qt3 include directory
      AllFindModules test: do not require TCLSH version
      add test for get_property() errors

Stephen Kelly (13):
      Fix typos arguement -> argument.
      Exit the loop when we have determined the language.
      Add whitespace after '.' in CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH docs.
      Fix documented function signature to match reality.
      Add default initializers for WIN32_EXECUTABLE and MACOSX_BUNDLE
      Add an option to skip RPATH during installation.
      Refactor GetIncludeFlags to take includes instead of fetching them
      Make it safe to call this method without creating duplicates.
      Remove include flags memoization.
      Add API to get the ordered includes for a target.
      Keep the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target property up to date.
      Extract and use the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target properties.
      Fix some typos in the docs comments.

Yury G. Kudryashov (23):
      FindDoxygen: add DOXYGEN_VERSION variable
      cmInstallCommand: Fix indentation error
      cmInstallCommand: Remove duplicated sentence from docs
      FindPkgConfig: respect REQUIRED (#12620)
      FindPackageHandleStandardArgs: fix documentation
      Remove unused file cmake.1
      Fix typo in documentation
      Drop if(...) check because condition is always true
      CMakeFindPackageMode: fix 32/64bit detection if 'file' is a symlink
      Run vim spellcheck on some files
      cmPropertyDefinition::IsChained is const
      Add 'const' qualifier to some cmCommand members
      doxygen: cmPropertyDefinition
      doxygen: Improve API docs of GetRealDependency
      doxygen: Use proper syntax to document enum
      doxygen: Small fixes in cmake.h apidocs
      doxygen: fix some comments in cmPolicies.h
      doxygen: remove a few comments
      doxygen: review cmake.h
      doxygen: MathCommand is not about string operators
      Rename UsedCommands to FinalPassCommands
      Remove UnionsAvailable member from 2 classes
      Remove cmExprParserHelper::SetLineFile()

CMake 2.8.8-rc2 ready for testing!

David Cole — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:00:09 -0400

The CMake 2.8.8 release candidate stream continues! You can find the source and binaries here:

http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D

Some of the notable changes in this release are:

per target include directories via the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target property
new Ninja generator on Linux
CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: build MSVC compatible dlls with MinGW gfortran
CMakePackageConfigHelpers: an easy way to generate a package config file for your package

(do not write a new Find module, provide a package config file)

various find_package improvements: MODULE mode, clearer error messages
support for Xcode 4.3 (which has a new default location, and a new directory structure)
update libarchive to newer upstream version: "libarchive 3.0.2-r4051 (reduced)"
new OBJECT_LIBRARY target type, CMake flavored "convenience libraries"
major Find module clean up effort: consistent use of FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS, add version number variables
much improved CPack documentation, see "cpack --help-command" and "cpack --help-variable"
and, as always, various minor bug fixes

Following is the complete list of changes in this rc since the last release. Please try this version of CMake on your projects and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker.

Thanks!

-Dave

Changes in CMake 2.8.8-rc2 (since 2.8.8-rc1)
--------------------------------------------
Alex Neundorf (4):
      make cmLocalGenerator::EscapeForCMake() static
      automoc: fix #13018, proper cmake escaping to avoid false rebuilds
      automoc: add define to test which caused bug #13018
      fix #13054: support OBJECT libraries in Eclipse

Ben Boeckel (1):
      Create granular targets for Ninja generators too

Brad King (6):
      CTest.UpdateHG: Fix repo URL for leading slash
      Always compile sources with known language
      Classify known header file extensions as headers
      VS: Add CMakeLists.txt re-run rules at start of generation
      Test generated module .def files
      Ninja: Fix module .def file path conversion

David Cole (2):
      CMake: Clarify SUFFIX target property documentation.
      Xcode: Pay attention to custom configuration types (#13082)

Peter Collingbourne (1):
      Ninja: Substitute <OBJECT> and <CMAKE_C_COMPILER> in depfile flags

Rolf Eike Beer (2):
      FILE: mention that TO_CMAKE_PATH also handles list delimiters
      FIND_LIBRARY: document FIND_LIBRARY_USE_LIB64_PATHS

Sean McBride (1):
      automoc: include <unistd.h> on Apple to get pathconf

Tom Hughes (1):
      Override topdir from rpm command line seems necessary on Amazon linux.

CMake 2.8.8-rc1 ready for testing!

David Cole — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:10:38 -0400

I am happy to announce that CMake 2.8.8 has entered the release candidate stage!

You can find the source and binaries here:

http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D

Some of the notable changes in this release are:

per target include directories via the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target property
new Ninja generator on Linux
CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: build MSVC compatible dlls with MinGW gfortran
CMakePackageConfigHelpers: an easy way to generate a package config file for your package

(do not write a new Find module, provide a package config file)

various find_package improvements: MODULE mode, clearer error messages
support for Xcode 4.3 (which has a new default location, and a new directory structure)
update libarchive to newer upstream version: "libarchive 3.0.2-r4051 (reduced)"
new OBJECT_LIBRARY target type, CMake flavored "convenience libraries"
compiler version number is now available in CMake variables
major Find module clean up effort: consistent use of FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS, add version number variables
much improved CPack documentation, see "cpack --help-command" and "cpack --help-variable"
and, as always, various minor bug fixes

Following is the complete list of changes in this rc since the last release. Please try this version of CMake on your projects and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker.

Thanks!

-Dave

Changes in CMake 2.8.8-rc1 (since 2.8.7)

----------------------------------------
Aaron C. Meadows (1):
      Visual Studio: Allow setting Single Byte Character Set (#12189)

Alex Neundorf (34):
      GNUInstallDirs: add support for Debian multiarch
      FindRuby: fix usage of RUBY_VERSION_MAJOR (#12172)
      FindRuby: add more possible library names (for ubuntu, #12172)
      FindRuby.cmake: add more debug output
      fix FeatureSummary for REQUIRED packages, they were reported as OPTIONAL
      FindGetText: fix multiple targets with the same name problem (CMP0002)
      fix #6976: FindX11 also searches for X11_Xxf86vm_LIB
      GenerateExportHeader: use double quotes around _gcc_version
      -remove trailing whitespace
      -don't pull in CheckTypeSize.cmake from the cmake which is being built
      bootstrap: move while() and endwhile() into the bootstrap build
      Check*.cmake: Expand imported targets in CMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES
      find_package: print error if an invalid CONFIGS name is used
      find_package: rename NoModule to UseFindModules
      find_package: improve error message when no Find module is present
      find_package: add MODULE mode to use only Find-modules
      find_package: add CONFIG mode keyword alias for NO_MODULE
      find_package: mention requested version number in error message
      add CMakePackageConfigHelpers: configure_package_config_file()
      wrap write_basic_config_version_file as write_basic_package_version_file()
      find_package: error out if REQUIRED Config has not been found
      write_basic_package_version_file(): improve documentation
      write_basic_package_version_file: add ExactVersion mode
      WriteBasicConfigVersionFile: add test for ExactVersion mode
      find_package: allow <pkg>Config.cmake to set <pkg>_FOUND to FALSE
      find_package: add test for setting Foo_FOUND to FALSE in a Config file
      find_package: additional test for checking the error message
      find_package: add OPTIONAL_COMPONENTS keyword
      FPHSA(): add missing "]" to documentation
      find_package: add documentation for OPTIONAL_COMPONENTS
      FPHSA(): add HANDLE_COMPONENTS option
      add macro check_required_components() to configure_package_config_file()
      Eclipse: fix #13036, make version detection work with symlinks
      guard eCos.cmake against multiple inclusion (#12987)

Alexandru Ciobanu (2):
      CTest: Detect Xcode error "Command ... failed with exit code"
      CTest: Match valgrind errors with "points to" (#12922)

Alexey Ozeritsky (1):
      FindBLAS/FindLAPACK: Work with MKL version 10.3 (#12924, #12925)

Artur Kedzierski (1):
      Add CURL_CA_BUNDLE option for SSL support (#12946)

Bill Hoffman (12):
      Add CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory to use MinGW gfortran in VS
      VSGNUFortran: Add special case for SunPro Fortran runtime library
      VSGNUFortran: Disable test in special cases
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Make IMPORTED targets GLOBAL
      Use upgraded qt on linux  build machine.
      Teach CTest what a ninja error looks like.
      Allow two cmake_add_fortran_subdirectory calls in the same project.
      Add ability to include a file in a project via a cache variable.
      Fix typo in error message, and remove redundent test.
      Ninja: Add a cache option CMAKE_ENABLE_NINJA to enable the ninja generator.
      Ninja: Fix for PDB files with spaces in the path.
      Fix FindMPI for the intel compiler on linux by looking in implict directories.

Bjoern Ricks (1):
      Fix crash if app bundle executeable couldn't be found

Brad King (138):
      CheckCCompilerFlag: Generalize "but not for C" case (#12633)
      complex: Remove ancient unused ComplexRelativePaths test
      complex: Sync Tests/ComplexOneConfig with Tests/Complex
      complex: Remove dynamic loader tests
      complex: Move GeneratedFileStream test to CMakeLibTests
      complex: Simplify test for single-character exe name
      complex: Move cmSystemTools::UpperCase test to CMakeLibTests
      complex: Remove test dependence on cmSystemTools
      complex: Remove unused option to test CMakeLib
      Intel: Fix Windows per-config Fortran flags (#12642)
      libarchive: Remove our copy to make room for new import
      libarchive: Add .gitattributes for indentation with tab
      libarchive: Add README-CMake.txt
      libarchive: Do not build subdirectories not in reduced snapshot
      libarchive: Remove -Wall -Werror from build with GNU
      libarchive: Build one static cmlibarchive for CMake
      libarchive: Include cm_zlib.h to get zlib used by CMake
      Handle libarchive API change in archive_read_data_block
      Configure libarchive build within CMake
      libarchive: Install COPYING with CMake documentation
      libarchive: Port to OSF operating system
      libarchive: Fix typo in CheckFileOffsetBits
      libarchive: Implement custom lseek for Borland
      libarchive: Declare mbstate_t and wcrtomb for Borland
      libarchive: Cast constants to int64_t instead of using LL suffix
      libarchive: Workaround case-insensitive symbols on Borland
      libarchive: Clean up configuration within CMake build
      libarchive: Cast mode constants to mode_t in case it is signed
      libarchive: Fix Windows NT API usage in VS 6
      libarchive: Suppress compiler warnings
      libarchive: Fix var decl after statement in archive_string.c
      libarchive: Do not use ST_NOATIME if not defined
      libarchive: Check for 'struct statvfs' member 'f_iosize'
      libarchive: Do not use MNT_NOATIME if not defined
      libarchive: Use Apple copyfile.h API only if available
      libarchive: Remove hard-coded build configuration
      libarchive: Cleanup after ZLIB_WINAPI check
      libarchive: Define _XOPEN_SOURCE=500 on HP-UX
      libarchive: Include linux/types.h before linux/fiemap.h
      libarchive: Rename isoent_rr_move_dir parameter isoent => curent
      libarchive: Suppress PathScale compiler warnings
      libarchive: Avoid bogus conversion warning from PGI compiler
      libarchive: Set .gitattributes to allow trailing whitespace
      libarchive: Update README-CMake.txt for new snapshot
      libarchive: Restore CMake 2.6.3 as minimum version
      bootstrap: Update copyright year in version report
      bootstrap: Re-implement command line option processing
      bootstrap: Forward options after '--' to cmake
      VS10: Fix /pdb option vcxproj element name (#12328)
      Add framework to detect compiler version with its id (#12408)
      Detect GNU compiler version with its id (#6251)
      Detect MSVC compiler version with its id
      Detect Intel compiler version with its id (#11937)
      Detect Borland compiler version with its id
      Detect IBM XL compiler version with its id
      Detect PGI compiler version with its id
      Detect Clang compiler version with its id
      Detect Watcom compiler version with its id
      Detect SunPro compiler version with its id
      Detect HP compiler version with its id
      Document compiler version macro formats used for detection
      Detect SGI MIPSpro compiler version with its id
      ExternalProject: Fix git.cmd version detection
      ExternalProject: Update copyright year
      Include bzlib.h consistently across CMake build (#10950)
      FindMPI: Append MPI C++ library correctly in non-compiler case (#12874)
      Add infrastructure for CMake-only tests
      Tolerate cycles in shared library link interfaces (#12647)
      cmInstallCommand: Fix line length for style
      cmake-mode.el: Indent after multiline argument (#12908)
      Clarify IMPORTED_ target property documentation
      Optionally allow IMPORTED targets to be globally visible
      Add test covering imported target scope rules
      VS: Simplify ;-separated attribute value parsing
      Fix CXX/Fortran MODULE flags when enabled before C (#12929)
      Remove unused test code
      Allow directory names containing '=' and warn if necessary (#12934)
      Add CheckLanguage module
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Allow full paths to directories
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Fix documentation format and typos
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Find gfortran in PATH
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Validate gfortran architecture
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Always parse arguments
      CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory: Add NO_EXTERNAL_INSTALL option
      libarchive: Workaround mbsnrtowcs assertion failure on old glibc
      Recognize OpenBSD versioned .so names (#12954)
      try_compile: Use random executable file name (#12957)
      Rename Modules/Platform/Windows-{Borland => Embarcadero}.cmake
      Recognize Embarcadero compiler (#12604)
      Factor cmInstallType out of cmTarget::TargetType
      Add infrastructure for CMakeCommands tests
      find_package: Reject mixed use of MODULE- and CONFIG-only options
      find_package: Optionally warn when implicitly using Config mode
      find_package: Test error and warning messages in failure cases
      bootstrap: Convert MSYS paths to Windows format (#13001)
      CTest.UpdateHG: Fix repo URL for local filesystem (#13001)
      cmcurl: Do not hard-coded Windows check results for MinGW (#13001)
      CheckSourceTree: Remove CVS checkout support (#13001)
      Fix MSYS CVS local test repo path format (#13001)
      find_package: Test that REQUIRED aborts processing correctly
      Remove unused partial OBJECT_FILES property implementation
      VS: Simplify object name computation
      Hide Makefile local object info inside local generator
      KWIML: Make test_INT robust to #define-d int#_t and INT#_C
      Add stronger infrastructure for CMake-only tests
      Use generalized RunCMake test infrastrucure for find_package test
      Use generalized RunCMake test infrastrucure for build_command test
      Document Fortran_MODULE_DIRECTORY as OUTPUT only (#13034)
      Ninja: Constify use of cmCustomCommand
      Ninja: Avoid using 'this' in member initializers
      Write CMakeCache.txt atomically (#13040)
      Add cmGeneratorTarget to represent a target during generation
      Create a cmGeneratorTarget for each cmTarget during generation
      Simplify cmMakefileTargetGenerator using cmGeneratorTarget
      Simplify cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator using cmGeneratorTarget
      Pre-compute object file names before Makefile generation
      Pre-compute object file names before VS project generation
      Remove unused cmSourceGroup method
      Rename/constify build-time config placeholder lookup
      Pre-compute and store target object directory in cmGeneratorTarget
      Add OBJECT_LIBRARY target type
      Build object library targets in Makefiles
      Build object library targets in VS
      Add $<TARGET_OBJECTS:...> expression to use an object library
      Test OBJECT library success cases
      Test OBJECT library failure cases
      Test OBJECT library language propagation
      Test OBJECT library use without other sources
      Document OBJECT library type in add_library command
      Simplify cmNinjaTargetGenerator using cmGeneratorTarget
      Pre-compute object file names before Ninja generation
      Build object library targets in Ninja
      Ninja: Honor $<TARGET_OBJECTS:...> source expressions
      find_package: Test rejection of required+optional components
      Simplify cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator source classification
      VS10: Fix external objects generated outside target (#13047)
      Fix ObjectLibrary test on Watcom
      KWIML: Avoid conflict with C++11 user-defined literals

Christian Andersson (1):
      FindPythonLibs: Search for single-user installs on Windows

Christopher Sean Morrison (1):
      cmake-mode.el: Make indentation case-insensitive (#12995)

Clinton Stimpson (14):
      GetPrerequisites: Add support for @rpath on Mac OS X.
      GetPrerequisites: Add support for @rpath on Mac OS X.
      GetPrerequisites: Add test for @rpath support.
      Fix new BundleUtilities test failure on Mac 10.4.x
      Fix BundleUtilities test failure with space in build path.
      cmake-gui: Improve interrupt granularity to fix bug 12649.
      FindQt4: clarify warning message about incorrect Qt installation.
      FindQt4: Add include directories for lupdate.
      Fix paths/hints for finding qtmain.
      DragNDrop: Fix problem with relocated files in Xcode 4.3
      Add test for DeployQt4.cmake
      Fix for Qt4Deploy on some test machines.
      Remove QtGui dependency in Qt4Deploy test and verify QtSql existance.
      DeployQt4: Add path to Qt dlls on Windows.

Daniel Nelson (1):
      CPack  Add top level directory in component install for Archive Generators

David Cole (33):
      Begin post-2.8.7 development
      Release: Increase timeout for slow-testing cygwin build
      Update dashmacmini2 release script to use Qt 4.6.3
      Update dashmacmini2 release script to use Qt 4.8.0
      Tests: Update drop site value for the Trilinos contract test
      Update version of Qt for dashmacmini5 produced release binaries
      CTestCustom: Suppress clang warning on the dashboard
      CMake: Eliminate cmMakefile::IncludeDirectories
      Remove cmMakefile::GetIncludeDirectories
      Make search paths ordered and unique
      Call ExpandVariablesInString for each target's INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
      Update the documentation regarding INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.
      Fix compiler error reported on older Borland dashboard.
      Fix compiler warning reported on older Borland dashboard.
      Fix shadowed variable warning on dashboard results
      Remove trailing white space
      Use correct "requires" line in cygwin setup hint file
      VS6: Avoid _MBCS define when _SBCS is defined (#12189)
      VS6: Avoid SBCS test on VS6 (#12189)
      Suppress warnings occurring on the dashboards using the PGI compiler.
      CPack: Fix retry logic when calls to hdiutil fail
      Ninja: CMake: Adapt Ninja generator for per-target include dirs
      Ninja: Add friend struct so it can access the private ConvertToNinjaPath.
      Xcode: Detect new default locations of Xcode 4.3 bits and pieces (#12621)
      CPack: Use real path to PackageMaker to find its version file (#12621)
      Xcode: Re-factor code into GetObjectsNormalDirectory method
      Xcode: Re-factor some existing methods into "FromPath" variants
      Add a default source group for object files.
      Allow txt files as ExtraSources in object library targets
      Pre-compute object file names before Xcode generation
      Build object library targets in Xcode
      Xcode: Honor $<TARGET_OBJECTS:...> source expressions
      Tests: Relax restrictions on version variable contents

Deborah Pickett (1):
      CPackRPM flag direcories with %dir in the generated spec file

Droscy (1):
      FindCxxTest: Add support for CxxTest 4 (#13022)

Eric NOULARD (41):
      Document undocumented (but existing) cpack options (fix #0010134)
      Enhance bash completion file for cmake and ctest
      Do not add the content of a file if it's a symlink.
      CPackArchive restore default behavior and provide new variable.
      CPackNSIS fix #0012935 switch from LOG_WARNING to avoid final error.
      CPack begin the implementation of --help-command* and --help-variables*
      Implement simple CMake script comment markup language.
      CPack Documentation extraction from CMake script begins to work
      Update bash completion file in order to handle new CPack doc options.
      Suppress unused var, beautify code, avoid 1 extra newline.
      Fix potential bad memory access, thanks to Eike
      Calm down compiler warning about unused var
      Really avoid compiler warning about unused vars
      Fix another compiler warning due to a typo
      Make the load of script documentation more efficient and dynamic.
      Example of builtin variable documentation (i.e. only used in C++ source code).
      Add missing section markup for CPackComponent
      Create getDocumentedModulesListInDir which may be used in other context.
      Fix non existent std::string::clear on VS6
      Avoid discovering system infos for documentation. Adding some path is enough.
      Dynamically add documentation section specified in documented script.
      Add structured documentation for NSIS
      Add structure documentation for CPack Bundle generator
      Suppress unecessary (now empty) doc sections
      Correct copy/paste section name mistake
      Put CPack DMG and PackageMaker doc in separate files
      More documentation concerning CPack Components
      Fix typo in end markup
      Try to fix compile error on Win32-vs70
      Do not build RPM if path of the build tree contains space
      Fix layout of the CPack Bundle documentation
      Fix CPack Drag and Drop generator documentation layout.
      Review and update CPack variable documentation.
      Update CPackConfig template.
      Provide template for CPack Cygwin generator specific variables.
      Update CPack PackageMaker variable doc layout
      Typo: Add missing ##end for ##module
      Fix some typos in CPACK_SET_DESTDIR doc
      Add some missing CPACK_NSIS_xxx doc and move some to common CPack section.
      CPack STGZ put execute permission on all packages files (component case)
      Handle CPACK_MONOLITHIC_INSTALL in some rare use cases.

Eugene Golushkov (1):
      VS: Add support for WinRT project properties (#12930)

James Bigler (1):
      Added support for curand, cusparse, npp, nvcuenc and nvcuvid libraries.

Jason Erb (1):
      FindwxWidgets: Add webview library (#12636)

LibArchive Upstream (2):
      libarchive 3.0.1-r3950 (reduced)
      libarchive 3.0.2-r4051 (reduced)

Matthias Kretz (1):
      Improve checks for Open64 and g++ incompatible flags (#12119)

Mattias Helsing (1):
      CPack: Fix NSIS handling of privileged users (#12923)

Michael Wild (1):
      GenerateExportHeader: Fix wrong use of IS_ABSOLUTE (#12645)

Mike McQuaid (5):
      Don't use QT_LIBRARIES_PLUGINS by default.
      Fix mismatched arguments.
      Fix bad plugin paths.
      Ensure libs are passed to BundleUtilities.
      Fix plugin installation issues.

Modestas Vainius (3):
      various typo and formatting fixes in manual pages (#12975)
      KWIML: Teach ABI.h that MIPS is biendian
      Tests: Escape metachars before embedding paths into the regex (#12999)

Nicolas Despres (5):
      ccmake: Factor clear line.
      ccmake: Extend clear line.
      java: Factor jar output path.
      java: Add CMAKE_JAVA_TARGET_OUTPUT_DIR optional variable.
      java: Add CMAKE_JAVA_JAR_ENTRY_POINT optional variable.

Peter Collingbourne (19):
      Add cmSystemTools::TrimWhitespace function
      Add executable with exports flag support to cmLocalGenerator::GetTargetFlags
      Provide dependency file flags to generator
      Ninja: Add the Ninja generator
      Ninja: Fix a 79-col violation
      Ninja: Remove some default arguments
      Ninja: Appease various compilers
      Ninja: Partially revert "win fixes: escape back slash/colon, use cd. as cmd.exe nop"
      Ninja: Identifier encoding rules for ' ' and ':'
      Ninja: Backslash rules for Windows
      Ninja: Shell encode paths used in "cd" commands
      Ninja: Shell encode various CMake invocations
      Ninja: Shell encode the command used in custom commands
      Ninja: Import library support for Windows
      Ninja: Add a missed license header
      Ninja: Use cmSystemTools::ExpandListArgument to split compile/link commands
      Ninja: Remove an unnecessary variable
      Ninja: add support for OBJECT_OUTPUTS, fix PrecompiledHeader test case
      Ninja: shell escape $(CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR) and $(CMAKE_BINARY_DIR)

Peter Kuemmel (12):
      Find VC Express during default generator selection (#12917)
      Ninja: win fixes: escape back slash/colon, use cd. as cmd.exe nop
      Ninja: don't define MSVC_IDE when using the ninja generator
      Ninja: also build ninja support on Windows
      Ninja: add some hacks for Windows
      Ninja: disable unfinished Windows ninja support
      Ninja: mark the Windows specific hacks with a comment only
      Ninja: windows msvc: create for each target a .pdb file
      Ninja: ensure the output dir exists at compile time
      Ninja: add .def file support
      Ninja: add /DEF: flag to linker call
      Ninja: Fix <OBJECT_DIR> substitution

Philip Lowman (5):
      FindProtobuf: Merge patch that allows extra import dirs
      FindProtobuf: Update documentation comment for 2.8.8
      Findosg: New modules for osgQt and osgPresentation
      FindALSA: Fix incorrect include path detection
      FindALSA: Fix version detection after last commit

Rolf Eike Beer (95):
      remove reference to CVS directory when installing files
      CheckSymbolExists: force the compiler to keep the referenced symbol
      add a test for Check{,CXX}SymbolExists
      FindOpenSSL: improve version number handling
      FindOpenSSL: only try to parse opensslv.h if it exists
      FindOpenSSL: also parse version number define with uppercase letters
      GenerateExportHeader test: add newlines before end of file
      add a test that loops through most Find* modules
      AllFindModules test: keep complete output
      AllFindModules test: also check Qt3 modules if Qt4 is not found
      FindPythonInterp: make version selectable
      FindPythonInterp: fix version parsing
      LoadCommand test: cleanup
      FindThreads: Try pthreads with no special option first (#11333)
      fix uninitialized var in if(NOT foo bar STREQUAL "foo bar")
      use pkg_check_modules() quiet in other modules
      FindLibXml2: support version selection
      FindGnuTLS: partly support version selection
      FindGit: support version number
      FindCups: major overhaul
      FindEXPAT: support version number
      FindCURL: support version selection
      FindFLEX: fix version parsing for old flex versions
      FindFLEX: fix version parsing when the executable is quoted
      FindJasper: find debug libraries
      FindJasper: support version number
      FindBZip2: add support for version checking
      FindBZip2: add support for debug libraries (#12867)
      FindImageMagick: make use of more FPHSA features
      FindPNG: support version selection
      FindRuby: do not blindly set version to 1.8.0
      FindTclsh: support version selection
      SelectLibraryConfigurations: do not output identical configurations
      FindLua51: add version support
      FindTIFF: support version selection
      FindCURL: detect version number also for older versions
      FindLibXml2: detect version when PkgConfig is not used
      FindPostgreSQL: support version selection
      FindOpenSSL: properly parse the hex version components
      FindBISON: add a version expression for GNU Bison 1.x
      FindPythonInterp: try harder to get a version number
      FindJasper: fix library name
      FindGnuplot: add version selection
      FindALSA: support version selection
      FindGettext: support version selection
      CheckCXXCompilerFlag test: make it a CMakeOnly test
      CMakeOnly.AllFindModules: clean up the Qt3/Qt4 code
      CMakeOnly.AllFindModules: always check FindQt
      CMakeOnly.AllFindModules: suppress two modules from testing
      CMakeOnly.AllFindModules: require version for some modules
      CheckIncludeFiles: fix status output
      FindPerl{,Libs}: move version detection into FindPerl
      FindLibArchive: support version selection
      FindX11: also search for Xmu (#12447)
      detect "pgfortran" as PGI Fortran compiler (#12425)
      FindSDL*: use FPHSA (#12467)
      AllFindModules test: do not enforce GNUPLOT version
      FindPerlLibs: properly detect libperl on Windows (#12224)
      CTest: mark all gcov covered files as covered
      FindGLUT: honor REQUIRED (#12466)
      FindRuby: clean up querying variables from Ruby
      FindLibXslt: support version selection
      Tests: document where to put tests
      FindPkgConfig: support version selection of pkg-config itself
      fix the same typos as found by Debian in other places, too
      Find_library(): allow searching for versioned shared objects
      FindFreetype: support version selection
      AllFindModules test: expect more modules to have a version number available
      FindOpenMP: do not fail if only C or CXX is enabled (#11910)
      FindOpenMP: try the most likely flags first
      FindOpenMP: simplify check for enabled languages
      UseSWIG: clean up string compares
      FindPython{Interp,Libs}: document Python_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS as input
      FindPythonLibs: make the version selection work as for PythonInterp
      FindPythonLibs: get the exact version of the found library (#3080)
      FindPythonLibs: put debug libraries into PYTHON_LIBRARIES
      FindPythonLibs: stop scanning when libraries are found
      Check{C,CXX}CompilerFlag: detect ICC error messages
      GenerateExportHeader: remove unneeded code
      GenerateExportHeader: improve compiler identification
      FindOpenSceneGraph: give every message() with an explicit level
      FindHSPELL: set HSPELL_VERSION_STRING
      FindImageMagick: fix fail if no components were given
      FindPythonInterp: rework the version detection
      document when version detection will not work
      AllFindModules test: once again expand version checking
      improve error message on a stray "endwhile()"
      add testcases for while()/endwhile() errors
      reflect that the QtAutomoc depends on QtGui
      FindQt3: fix warning when Qt3 is not found
      FindQt3: fix version extraction for versions with letters
      FindQt3: let FPHSA handle the version selection
      FindQt3: fix detection of Qt3 include directory
      AllFindModules test: do not require TCLSH version
      add test for get_property() errors

Stephen Kelly (13):
      Fix typos arguement -> argument.
      Exit the loop when we have determined the language.
      Add whitespace after '.' in CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH docs.
      Fix documented function signature to match reality.
      Add default initializers for WIN32_EXECUTABLE and MACOSX_BUNDLE
      Add an option to skip RPATH during installation.
      Refactor GetIncludeFlags to take includes instead of fetching them
      Make it safe to call this method without creating duplicates.
      Remove include flags memoization.
      Add API to get the ordered includes for a target.
      Keep the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target property up to date.
      Extract and use the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target properties.
      Fix some typos in the docs comments.

Yury G. Kudryashov (23):
      FindDoxygen: add DOXYGEN_VERSION variable
      cmInstallCommand: Fix indentation error
      cmInstallCommand: Remove duplicated sentence from docs
      FindPkgConfig: respect REQUIRED (#12620)
      FindPackageHandleStandardArgs: fix documentation
      Remove unused file cmake.1
      Fix typo in documentation
      Drop if(...) check because condition is always true
      CMakeFindPackageMode: fix 32/64bit detection if 'file' is a symlink
      Run vim spellcheck on some files
      cmPropertyDefinition::IsChained is const
      Add 'const' qualifier to some cmCommand members
      doxygen: cmPropertyDefinition
      doxygen: Improve API docs of GetRealDependency
      doxygen: Use proper syntax to document enum
      doxygen: Small fixes in cmake.h apidocs
      doxygen: fix some comments in cmPolicies.h
      doxygen: remove a few comments
      doxygen: review cmake.h
      doxygen: MathCommand is not about string operators
      Rename UsedCommands to FinalPassCommands
      Remove UnionsAvailable member from 2 classes
      Remove cmExprParserHelper::SetLineFile()

CMake 2.8.7 available for download

David Cole — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:32:34 -0500

On behalf of myself, Ken, Bill, Brad, Alex, Zach, Ben and the rest of the CMake team from all around the world, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.7 is now available for download at:

http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D

It is also available from the usual download links found on the CMake web site:

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

Some of the notable changes in this release are:

improved Eclipse support
incremental improvements to the AUTOMOC feature added in the previous release
more cryptographic hash implementations (SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512)
file(...) and string(...) command additions for computing hash values
added LINK_PUBLIC and LINK_PRIVATE options to target_link_libraries command
new module: DeployQt4
and, as always, various minor bug fixes

Similar to the previous release, we do not have pre-built binaries for the SunOS anymore. However, now we have two sets of installers for the Mac. The "Darwin" versions are for Mac OSX 10.4 and later, and are "ppc;i386" universal binaries. The "Darwin64" versions are for 10.6 and later, and are "x86_64;i386" universal binaries.

There was a bit of a network connectivity snag in building the binaries for the AIX platform today... Because of this, the tarballs for AIX will not be available until sometime next week.

Following is the complete list of changes in this release. Please try this version of CMake on your projects and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker.

Thanks for using CMake! (and Happy New Year!)

-Dave

Changes in CMake 2.8.7 (since 2.8.7-rc2)
--------------------------------------------
None

Changes in CMake 2.8.7-rc2 (since 2.8.7-rc1)
--------------------------------------------
Alex Neundorf (5):
      automoc: default to strict mode, use CMAKE_AUTOMOC_RELAXED_MODE
      automoc: improved warning message in relaxed mode
      Remove trailing whitespace
      Add comment about one more problem of the C depency scanner.
      fix #12262: dependency scanning for ASM files

Bill Hoffman (1):
      Fix the case where cmake --build failed with two project cmds in one file.

Brad King (11):
      KWSys: Correctly handle empty environment variables
      FortranCInterface: Work around mingw32-make trouble with parens
      Xcode: Create separate rerun dependencies for subprojects (#12616)
      Fix Intel Fortran .vfproj files for VS 10
      HP: Drive shared library linking with compiler front end
      Follow all dependencies of shared library private dependencies
      Do not link private dependent shared libraries on OS X > 10.4
      Avoid clobbering variable 'OUTPUT' in compiler tests (#12628)
      Fix and simplify Fortran test compiler compatibility check
      CTest: Recognize Intel errors without space before colon (#12627)
      Windows-GNU: Remove extra quotes in GNUtoMS rule variable

David Cole (4):
      Release: Increase timeout for slow-testing cygwin build
      Modules: Use "windres" as rc compiler base name for cross-compiles (#12480)
      Tests: Only really run MFC test if we can build MFC apps (#11213)
      FindBoost: Quote possibly empty string argument (#12273)

Eric NOULARD (1):
      CPackRPM fix #0012608 and unoticed related bug

Johan Fänge (1):
      CMake: Fix progress reporting for custom targets (#12441)

Mike McQuaid (2):
      Unset configurations variable when no build type.
      Improve component support and output indentation.

Raphael Kubo da Costa (2):
      Remove the apparently outdated README in Source/QtDialog.
      QtDialog: Set Ctrl+Q as the shortcut for quitting the program.

Tim Gallagher (2):
      FindLAPACK: Correct CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES spelling (#12624)
      FindLAPACK: List thread libs to avoid link errors (#12625)

Valat Sébastien (1):
      CTest: Do not get CDash version without drop site (#12618)

Changes in CMake 2.8.7-rc1 (since 2.8.6)
----------------------------------------
Aaron Ten Clay (1):
      VS: Add support for three new project properties (#12586)

Alex Neundorf (60):
      fix #12392: handle CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ARG1 for Eclipse projects
      fix #12262: use the C dependency scanner also for ASM files
      fix #12465: detect the masm compiler ID ("MSVC")
      Silence make on OpenBSD in FindPackageModeTest(#12508)
      Remove trailing whitespace
      Find Ruby on OpenBSD when installed from ports (#12507)
      Eclipse generator: detect Eclipse version
      Detect whether the current Eclipse version supports VirtualFolders
      Eclipse: don't create VirtualFolders if not supported
      Eclipse: better message when Eclipse version could not be determined
      automoc:run moc on the header if the source file contains include "foo.moc"
      Add copyright notices
      automoc: always run moc on the cpp file if there is a foo.moc included
      Eclipse: add virtual folder for each target
      Eclipse: move code for generating links to projects into separate function
      Eclipse: move code for generating links to targets into separate function
      Eclipse: add Build and Clean targets to targets
      Eclipse: detect number of CPUs, set CMAKE_ECLIPSE_MAKE_ARGUMENTS accordigly
      Eclipse: fix #12417, don't create wrong src pathentries
      FindLibXslt: also search libexslt and xsltproc
      don't crash in automoc with empty COMPILE_DEFINITIONS property
      Automoc: fix the fix, need to use std::string, not just char* pointer
      automoc: fix #12541, support moc options
      add documentation for the AUTOMOC_MOC_OPTIONS property
      Eclipse: warn if CMAKE_BINARY_DIR is subdir of CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR
      Eclipse: make targets work from any directory
      Eclipse: quote the build dir (to make it work with spaces)
      make automoc work when using ccmake via PATH (#12551)
      Strip trailing whitespace
      -make GETTEXT_PROCESS_PO_FILES() work with files with multiple dots
      FindGettext: two more fixes for files with multiple dots
      FindPNG: provide PNG_INCLUDE_DIRS, as the readme.txt says (#11312)
      Eclipse: create links to subprojects also in the source-project (#12579)
      Eclipse: use new variable CMAKE_ECLIPSE_GENERATE_SOURCE_PROJECT
      install(EXPORT): Enforce existence of imported target files
      Remove trailing whitespace
      cmake-gui: add completion for the names when adding cache entries
      automoc: stricter checking for what file is included
      automoc: rework the checking for the matching header, to give better warnings
      automoc: handle the case when the developer includes the wrong mocfile
      automoc: add more test cases
      automoc: improved diagnostics
      automoc: minor optimization
      automoc: another runtime optimization
      Automoc: modified handling of included .moc files
      automoc: add a test for including both abc.moc and moc_abc.cpp
      automoc: add test for including the moc file from another header
      automoc: add test for including a moc_abc_p.cpp file
      automoc: move some code from the big parsing loop into separate functions
      automoc: add special handling for including basename_p.moc, with test
      automoc: add extra check whether the header contains Q_PRIVATE_SLOT
      automoc: some more linebreaks for the warnings for better readability
      automoc: fix handling of included _p.moc files
      automoc: move the code for finding headers into separate function
      automoc: add a StrictParseCppFile(), which is only qmake-compatible
      automoc: also accept other files when .moc is included in non-strict mode
      automoc: accept even more .moc files in non-strict mode
      automoc: add variable CMAKE_AUTOMOC_STRICT_MODE, to enable strict parsing
      automoc: fix line length
      automoc: add documentation for CMAKE_AUTOMOC_STRICT_MODE

Alexey Ozeritsky (1):
      FindLAPACK: Fix linking to static LAPACK on Unix (#12477)

Bernhard Walle (1):
      Source/cmCTest.cxx: Add missing newline (#12538)

Brad King (65):
      Refactor find_* command final path list computation
      Constify XCode generator getters to match cmGlobalGenerator
      Fix line-too-long style violations
      KWSys: Fix Doxygen warnings
      Add pre-commit|commit-msg|prepare-commit-msg hook placeholders
      pre-commit: Reject changes to KWSys through Git
      Fix CTest.UpdateSVN with Subversion 1.7 (#12535)
      Teach CTest.UpdateSVN to detect svn add --depth before using it
      KWSys: Address Intel compiler remarks
      Fix linking to OS X Frameworks named with spaces (#12550)
      Watcom: Use shortpath to CMake if full path has parens (#12548)
      KWSys: Remove trailing whitespace in SystemTools.cxx
      KWSys: Fix wrong spelling of __INTEL_COMPILER
      Update main Copyright.txt year range for 2011
      KWIML: The Kitware Information Macro Library
      Configure KWIML inside CMake as cmIML
      KWIML: Avoid redefining _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE in test.h
      KWIML: Suppress printf/scanf format warnings in test
      KWIML: No INT_SCN*8 on SunPro compiler
      KWIML: No INT_SCN*8 on Intel for Windows
      KWIML: Create test output dir for Xcode
      Order VS local generator Version ivar values consistently
      Enumerate VS11 version explicitly in local generators
      KWIML: Test header inclusion after system headers
      KWIML: Ignore _LONGLONG on MS compiler
      KWIML: Teach ABI.h about PGI compiler
      KWIML: Avoid MSVC linker warning about not using C++ runtime
      Factor Compute(File|String)MD5 into cmCryptoHash helper
      Add file(MD5) command to compute cryptographic hash
      Import sha2 implementation 1.0 from Aaron D. Gifford
      Import sha2 implementation 1.1 from Aaron D. Gifford
      sha2: Use KWIML fixed-size integer types and endian-ness
      sha2: Build as part of CMakeLib
      Add file(SHA*) commands to compute cryptographic hashes
      sha2: Use "static const" instead of "const static" declarations
      cmCryptoHash: Provide factory "New" method
      Add string(MD5) and string(SHA*) commands to compute hashes
      sha2: Use KWIML fixed-size integer constant macros
      sha2: Suppress Borland warnings in third-party code
      Disable file() and string() hash commands during bootstrap
      sha2: Wrap long lines in third-party declarations
      Fix CMake.File hash test for CRLF checkouts
      cmCryptoHash: Add virtual destructor
      sha2: Cast safe conversions to smaller integer types
      sha2: Suppress -Wcast-align warning from Clang
      sha2: Zero entire SHA_CTX structure during cleanup
      target_link_libraries: Add missing space in documentation
      target_link_libraries: Simplify argument processing state tests
      install(EXPORT): Improve target import failure message format
      Remove trailing whitespace from cmLocalGenerator
      bootstrap: Include cmNewLineStyle in build
      cmNewLineStyle: Remove trailing comma in enum
      cmNewLineStyle: Use cmStandardIncludes.h
      Provide std::ios_base typedef on GCC < 3
      FindZLIB: Search under ZLIB_ROOT if it is set
      Factor out target location undefined behavior helper macro
      export(): Document undefined behavior of location properties
      Recognize the Tiny C Compiler (#12605)
      TinyCC: Add compiler info for shared libs on Linux (#12605)
      Fortran: Detect pointer size in gfortran on MinGW
      Load platform files that need to know the ABI when possible
      Factor makefile generator link rule lookup into helper function
      Add CMAKE_GNUtoMS option to convert GNU .dll.a to MS .lib
      Test CMAKE_GNUtoMS option in ExportImport on MinGW and MSys
      cmTarget: Create helper method for versioned library names

Clinton Stimpson (2):
      Fix XML safety issue with adding preprocessor defines in CodeBlocks project.
      Qt4: Fix dependencies of QtDeclartive.

Dan Kegel (1):
      Modules: Add XRes to FindX11.cmake

David Cole (17):
      Begin post-2.8.6 development
      CTest: Fix crash when variables are not defined
      VS11: Fix comment generated at the top of *.sln files
      CTest: Add COVERAGE_EXTRA_FLAGS cache variable (#12490)
      CTest: Clear custom vectors before populating (#12383)
      Tests: Add the MFC test (#11213)
      Tests: Avoid MFC test automatically for VCExpress builds (#11213)
      Tests: Fix MFC test w/ Make-based generators (#11213)
      Tests: Fix MFC test for old vs6 dashboards (#11213)
      Tests: Avoid MFC test automatically for Watcom WMake builds (#11213)
      Tests: Fix MFC test to work with VS 10 and later (#11213)
      VS10: Use expected values for UseOfMfc (#11213)
      Tests: Add environment logging to the MFC test (#11213)
      VS11: Update InstallRequiredSystemLibraries.cmake for VS11 (#11213)
      Tests: Nudge MFC test to pass on VS 6 dashboards (#11213)
      VS: Use "call " keyword with .cmd and .bat file custom commands (#12445)
      CTest: Disallow problem chars in build and site names (#11792)

Eric NOULARD (3):
      CPackRPM support component specific variables for spec files
      Fix old reference to CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM inside CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL doc.
      CPackRPM fix #12556 and enhance documentation

James Bigler (6):
      Added support for CUDA_PATH which is present in the CUDA toolkit 3.2 onward.
      Reset dependency file list when a dependency disappeared.
      Add work around for CUDA in UNC paths.
      Fixes for handling quotes in args and other places (Fix Bug 11726 and 12099).
      Make CUDA working directory unique for each target.
      Miscellaneous fixes.

Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin (1):
      CTest: Look for CTestConfig.cmake in build dir first, then source dir

Johan Bjork (1):
      Xcode: Avoid spewing the environment on every script run (#12522)

Mateusz Loskot (1):
      FindBoost: Use MSVC11 to find Boost on Windows (#12568)

Mathieu Malaterre (1):
      TinyCC: Add default compilation flags (#12605)

Mike McQuaid (6):
      Add QT_LIBRARIES_PLUGINS variable to UseQt4.
      Add DeployQt4 module.
      Match fixup_qt4_executable with documentation.
      Don't resolve directories; are never relative.
      Check plugin variables are defined before warning.
      Check QtCore without warning.

Nicolas Despres (17):
      Refactor TargetTypeNames.
      Add const versions of some getters.
      Constify many getters of cmGlobalGenerator.
      Remove trailing white-spaces.
      Fix typo.
      Doxygen: Improve code documentation.
      Doxygen: Generate call graph and relationships.
      Doxygen: Fix warnings.
      Doxygen: Remove dependency on VTK when building doxygen.
      Usage: Document -j|--parallel option in help message.
      Usage: Document all options printing usage information.
      Usage: Document all options printing the version number.
      Usage: Print help, version and copyright options in usage information.
      Usage: Add missing exepath argument in get_prerequisites documentation.
      ccmake: Align 'g' and 'q' key instructions.
      ccmake: Document '/' key.
      ccmake: Factor toggle key help instructions.

Niels Dekker (1):
      Fix CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE for VS10 vcxproj files (#12504)

Ondrej Balaz (1):
      FindBISON: Fix bison++ version parsing to avoid "Offending entry"

Peter Collingbourne (4):
      Make cmLocalGenerator::ConvertToLinkReference virtual
      Introduce a cmLocalGenerator::ConvertToIncludeReference function
      Introduce a cmGlobalGenerator::ResolveLanguageCompiler function
      Fix configuration-dependent flag lookup in cmLocalGenerator::GetTargetFlags

Peter Kuemmel (1):
      Add NEWLINE_STYLE option to configure_file (#3957)

Philip Lowman (1):
      FindProtoBuf: Documented limitation of the public macro

Pierre-Francois Laquerre (1):
      Fix path quoting in Qt4 macros

Robert Dailey (1):
      VS: Add VS_SCC_AUXPATH target property (#12549)

Rolf Eike Beer (4):
      libarchive: fix typo in CheckFileOffsetBits.cmake
      Tell people that link_directories() is not what they are searching for
      FindBISON: Fix matching output of "bison --version"
      Tests: ExternalProject: Remove unnecessary 'svn --version' call

Stephen Kelly (13):
      Add features from KDE for arguments to qdbusxml2cpp.
      Remove unused define.
      Build each library only once instead of once for each test.
      Initialize LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES target property with a variable
      Also run moc automatically with Qt5.
      Fix typo.
      Don't assume the existence of QT_MAJOR_VERSION.
      Update comments and method names to not be Qt4 specific.
      Fix style.
      target_link_libraries: Trim trailing whitespace
      target_link_libraries: Add LINK_(PUBLIC|PRIVATE) options
      moc is now part of the Qt5Core module
      Add a test case for the use of Q_PRIVATE_SLOT.

CMake 2.8.7-rc2 ready for testing!

David Cole — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:31:59 -0500

The CMake 2.8.7 release candidate stream continues! You can find the source and binaries here:

http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D

This will become the final build of CMake 2.8.7 next Wednesday unless somebody finds and reports a showstopping (crasher, serious behavioral regression) issue between now and then.

Some of the notable changes in this release are:

improved Eclipse support
incremental improvements to the AUTOMOC feature added in the previous release
more cryptographic hash implementations (SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512)
file(...) and string(...) command additions for computing hash values
added LINK_PUBLIC and LINK_PRIVATE options to target_link_libraries command
and, as always, various minor bug fixes

Changes in CMake 2.8.7-rc2 (since 2.8.7-rc1)
--------------------------------------------
Alex Neundorf (5):
      automoc: default to strict mode, use CMAKE_AUTOMOC_RELAXED_MODE
      automoc: improved warning message in relaxed mode
      Remove trailing whitespace
      Add comment about one more problem of the C depency scanner.
      fix #12262: dependency scanning for ASM files

Bill Hoffman (1):
      Fix the case where cmake --build failed with two project cmds in one file.

Brad King (11):
      KWSys: Correctly handle empty environment variables
      FortranCInterface: Work around mingw32-make trouble with parens
      Xcode: Create separate rerun dependencies for subprojects (#12616)
      Fix Intel Fortran .vfproj files for VS 10
      HP: Drive shared library linking with compiler front end
      Follow all dependencies of shared library private dependencies
      Do not link private dependent shared libraries on OS X > 10.4
      Avoid clobbering variable 'OUTPUT' in compiler tests (#12628)
      Fix and simplify Fortran test compiler compatibility check
      CTest: Recognize Intel errors without space before colon (#12627)
      Windows-GNU: Remove extra quotes in GNUtoMS rule variable

David Cole (4):
      Release: Increase timeout for slow-testing cygwin build
      Modules: Use "windres" as rc compiler base name for cross-compiles (#12480)
      Tests: Only really run MFC test if we can build MFC apps (#11213)
      FindBoost: Quote possibly empty string argument (#12273)

Eric NOULARD (1):
      CPackRPM fix #0012608 and unoticed related bug

Johan Fänge (1):
      CMake: Fix progress reporting for custom targets (#12441)

Mike McQuaid (2):
      Unset configurations variable when no build type.
      Improve component support and output indentation.

Raphael Kubo da Costa (2):
      Remove the apparently outdated README in Source/QtDialog.
      QtDialog: Set Ctrl+Q as the shortcut for quitting the program.

Tim Gallagher (2):
      FindLAPACK: Correct CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES spelling (#12624)
      FindLAPACK: List thread libs to avoid link errors (#12625)

Valat Sébastien (1):
      CTest: Do not get CDash version without drop site (#12618)

CMake 2.8.7-rc1 ready for testing!

David Cole — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:39:26 -0500

I am happy to announce that CMake 2.8.7 has entered the release candidate stage!

You can find the source and binaries here:

http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D

Some of the notable changes in this release are:

improved Eclipse support
incremental improvements to the AUTOMOC feature added in the previous release
more cryptographic hash implementations (SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512)
file(...) and string(...) command additions for computing hash values
added LINK_PUBLIC and LINK_PRIVATE options to target_link_libraries command
and, as always, various minor bug fixes

Following is the complete list of changes in this release. Please try this version of CMake on your projects and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker.

Happy building!

-Dave

Changes in CMake 2.8.7-rc1 (since 2.8.6)
----------------------------------------
Aaron Ten Clay (1):
      VS: Add support for three new project properties (#12586)

Alex Neundorf (60):
      fix #12392: handle CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ARG1 for Eclipse projects
      fix #12262: use the C dependency scanner also for ASM files
      fix #12465: detect the masm compiler ID ("MSVC")
      Silence make on OpenBSD in FindPackageModeTest(#12508)
      Remove trailing whitespace
      Find Ruby on OpenBSD when installed from ports (#12507)
      Eclipse generator: detect Eclipse version
      Detect whether the current Eclipse version supports VirtualFolders
      Eclipse: don't create VirtualFolders if not supported
      Eclipse: better message when Eclipse version could not be determined
      automoc:run moc on the header if the source file contains include "foo.moc"
      Add copyright notices
      automoc: always run moc on the cpp file if there is a foo.moc included
      Eclipse: add virtual folder for each target
      Eclipse: move code for generating links to projects into separate function
      Eclipse: move code for generating links to targets into separate function
      Eclipse: add Build and Clean targets to targets
      Eclipse: detect number of CPUs, set CMAKE_ECLIPSE_MAKE_ARGUMENTS accordigly
      Eclipse: fix #12417, don't create wrong src pathentries
      FindLibXslt: also search libexslt and xsltproc
      don't crash in automoc with empty COMPILE_DEFINITIONS property
      Automoc: fix the fix, need to use std::string, not just char* pointer
      automoc: fix #12541, support moc options
      add documentation for the AUTOMOC_MOC_OPTIONS property
      Eclipse: warn if CMAKE_BINARY_DIR is subdir of CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR
      Eclipse: make targets work from any directory
      Eclipse: quote the build dir (to make it work with spaces)
      make automoc work when using ccmake via PATH (#12551)
      Strip trailing whitespace
      -make GETTEXT_PROCESS_PO_FILES() work with files with multiple dots
      FindGettext: two more fixes for files with multiple dots
      FindPNG: provide PNG_INCLUDE_DIRS, as the readme.txt says (#11312)
      Eclipse: create links to subprojects also in the source-project (#12579)
      Eclipse: use new variable CMAKE_ECLIPSE_GENERATE_SOURCE_PROJECT
      install(EXPORT): Enforce existence of imported target files
      Remove trailing whitespace
      cmake-gui: add completion for the names when adding cache entries
      automoc: stricter checking for what file is included
      automoc: rework the checking for the matching header, to give better warnings
      automoc: handle the case when the developer includes the wrong mocfile
      automoc: add more test cases
      automoc: improved diagnostics
      automoc: minor optimization
      automoc: another runtime optimization
      Automoc: modified handling of included .moc files
      automoc: add a test for including both abc.moc and moc_abc.cpp
      automoc: add test for including the moc file from another header
      automoc: add test for including a moc_abc_p.cpp file
      automoc: move some code from the big parsing loop into separate functions
      automoc: add special handling for including basename_p.moc, with test
      automoc: add extra check whether the header contains Q_PRIVATE_SLOT
      automoc: some more linebreaks for the warnings for better readability
      automoc: fix handling of included _p.moc files
      automoc: move the code for finding headers into separate function
      automoc: add a StrictParseCppFile(), which is only qmake-compatible
      automoc: also accept other files when .moc is included in non-strict mode
      automoc: accept even more .moc files in non-strict mode
      automoc: add variable CMAKE_AUTOMOC_STRICT_MODE, to enable strict parsing
      automoc: fix line length
      automoc: add documentation for CMAKE_AUTOMOC_STRICT_MODE

Alexey Ozeritsky (1):
      FindLAPACK: Fix linking to static LAPACK on Unix (#12477)

Bernhard Walle (1):
      Source/cmCTest.cxx: Add missing newline (#12538)

Brad King (65):
      Refactor find_* command final path list computation
      Constify XCode generator getters to match cmGlobalGenerator
      Fix line-too-long style violations
      KWSys: Fix Doxygen warnings
      Add pre-commit|commit-msg|prepare-commit-msg hook placeholders
      pre-commit: Reject changes to KWSys through Git
      Fix CTest.UpdateSVN with Subversion 1.7 (#12535)
      Teach CTest.UpdateSVN to detect svn add --depth before using it
      KWSys: Address Intel compiler remarks
      Fix linking to OS X Frameworks named with spaces (#12550)
      Watcom: Use shortpath to CMake if full path has parens (#12548)
      KWSys: Remove trailing whitespace in SystemTools.cxx
      KWSys: Fix wrong spelling of __INTEL_COMPILER
      Update main Copyright.txt year range for 2011
      KWIML: The Kitware Information Macro Library
      Configure KWIML inside CMake as cmIML
      KWIML: Avoid redefining _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE in test.h
      KWIML: Suppress printf/scanf format warnings in test
      KWIML: No INT_SCN*8 on SunPro compiler
      KWIML: No INT_SCN*8 on Intel for Windows
      KWIML: Create test output dir for Xcode
      Order VS local generator Version ivar values consistently
      Enumerate VS11 version explicitly in local generators
      KWIML: Test header inclusion after system headers
      KWIML: Ignore _LONGLONG on MS compiler
      KWIML: Teach ABI.h about PGI compiler
      KWIML: Avoid MSVC linker warning about not using C++ runtime
      Factor Compute(File|String)MD5 into cmCryptoHash helper
      Add file(MD5) command to compute cryptographic hash
      Import sha2 implementation 1.0 from Aaron D. Gifford
      Import sha2 implementation 1.1 from Aaron D. Gifford
      sha2: Use KWIML fixed-size integer types and endian-ness
      sha2: Build as part of CMakeLib
      Add file(SHA*) commands to compute cryptographic hashes
      sha2: Use "static const" instead of "const static" declarations
      cmCryptoHash: Provide factory "New" method
      Add string(MD5) and string(SHA*) commands to compute hashes
      sha2: Use KWIML fixed-size integer constant macros
      sha2: Suppress Borland warnings in third-party code
      Disable file() and string() hash commands during bootstrap
      sha2: Wrap long lines in third-party declarations
      Fix CMake.File hash test for CRLF checkouts
      cmCryptoHash: Add virtual destructor
      sha2: Cast safe conversions to smaller integer types
      sha2: Suppress -Wcast-align warning from Clang
      sha2: Zero entire SHA_CTX structure during cleanup
      target_link_libraries: Add missing space in documentation
      target_link_libraries: Simplify argument processing state tests
      install(EXPORT): Improve target import failure message format
      Remove trailing whitespace from cmLocalGenerator
      bootstrap: Include cmNewLineStyle in build
      cmNewLineStyle: Remove trailing comma in enum
      cmNewLineStyle: Use cmStandardIncludes.h
      Provide std::ios_base typedef on GCC < 3
      FindZLIB: Search under ZLIB_ROOT if it is set
      Factor out target location undefined behavior helper macro
      export(): Document undefined behavior of location properties
      Recognize the Tiny C Compiler (#12605)
      TinyCC: Add compiler info for shared libs on Linux (#12605)
      Fortran: Detect pointer size in gfortran on MinGW
      Load platform files that need to know the ABI when possible
      Factor makefile generator link rule lookup into helper function
      Add CMAKE_GNUtoMS option to convert GNU .dll.a to MS .lib
      Test CMAKE_GNUtoMS option in ExportImport on MinGW and MSys
      cmTarget: Create helper method for versioned library names

Clinton Stimpson (2):
      Fix XML safety issue with adding preprocessor defines in CodeBlocks project.
      Qt4: Fix dependencies of QtDeclartive.

Dan Kegel (1):
      Modules: Add XRes to FindX11.cmake

David Cole (17):
      Begin post-2.8.6 development
      CTest: Fix crash when variables are not defined
      VS11: Fix comment generated at the top of *.sln files
      CTest: Add COVERAGE_EXTRA_FLAGS cache variable (#12490)
      CTest: Clear custom vectors before populating (#12383)
      Tests: Add the MFC test (#11213)
      Tests: Avoid MFC test automatically for VCExpress builds (#11213)
      Tests: Fix MFC test w/ Make-based generators (#11213)
      Tests: Fix MFC test for old vs6 dashboards (#11213)
      Tests: Avoid MFC test automatically for Watcom WMake builds (#11213)
      Tests: Fix MFC test to work with VS 10 and later (#11213)
      VS10: Use expected values for UseOfMfc (#11213)
      Tests: Add environment logging to the MFC test (#11213)
      VS11: Update InstallRequiredSystemLibraries.cmake for VS11 (#11213)
      Tests: Nudge MFC test to pass on VS 6 dashboards (#11213)
      VS: Use "call " keyword with .cmd and .bat file custom commands (#12445)
      CTest: Disallow problem chars in build and site names (#11792)

Eric NOULARD (3):
      CPackRPM support component specific variables for spec files
      Fix old reference to CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM inside CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL doc.
      CPackRPM fix #12556 and enhance documentation

James Bigler (6):
      Added support for CUDA_PATH which is present in the CUDA toolkit 3.2 onward.
      Reset dependency file list when a dependency disappeared.
      Add work around for CUDA in UNC paths.
      Fixes for handling quotes in args and other places (Fix Bug 11726 and 12099).
      Make CUDA working directory unique for each target.
      Miscellaneous fixes.

Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin (1):
      CTest: Look for CTestConfig.cmake in build dir first, then source dir

Johan Bjork (1):
      Xcode: Avoid spewing the environment on every script run (#12522)

Mateusz Loskot (1):
      FindBoost: Use MSVC11 to find Boost on Windows (#12568)

Mathieu Malaterre (1):
      TinyCC: Add default compilation flags (#12605)

Mike McQuaid (6):
      Add QT_LIBRARIES_PLUGINS variable to UseQt4.
      Add DeployQt4 module.
      Match fixup_qt4_executable with documentation.
      Don't resolve directories; are never relative.
      Check plugin variables are defined before warning.
      Check QtCore without warning.

Nicolas Despres (17):
      Refactor TargetTypeNames.
      Add const versions of some getters.
      Constify many getters of cmGlobalGenerator.
      Remove trailing white-spaces.
      Fix typo.
      Doxygen: Improve code documentation.
      Doxygen: Generate call graph and relationships.
      Doxygen: Fix warnings.
      Doxygen: Remove dependency on VTK when building doxygen.
      Usage: Document -j|--parallel option in help message.
      Usage: Document all options printing usage information.
      Usage: Document all options printing the version number.
      Usage: Print help, version and copyright options in usage information.
      Usage: Add missing exepath argument in get_prerequisites documentation.
      ccmake: Align 'g' and 'q' key instructions.
      ccmake: Document '/' key.
      ccmake: Factor toggle key help instructions.

Niels Dekker (1):
      Fix CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE for VS10 vcxproj files (#12504)

Ondrej Balaz (1):
      FindBISON: Fix bison++ version parsing to avoid "Offending entry"

Peter Collingbourne (4):
      Make cmLocalGenerator::ConvertToLinkReference virtual
      Introduce a cmLocalGenerator::ConvertToIncludeReference function
      Introduce a cmGlobalGenerator::ResolveLanguageCompiler function
      Fix configuration-dependent flag lookup in cmLocalGenerator::GetTargetFlags

Peter Kuemmel (1):
      Add NEWLINE_STYLE option to configure_file (#3957)

Philip Lowman (1):
      FindProtoBuf: Documented limitation of the public macro

Pierre-Francois Laquerre (1):
      Fix path quoting in Qt4 macros

Robert Dailey (1):
      VS: Add VS_SCC_AUXPATH target property (#12549)

Rolf Eike Beer (4):
      libarchive: fix typo in CheckFileOffsetBits.cmake
      Tell people that link_directories() is not what they are searching for
      FindBISON: Fix matching output of "bison --version"
      Tests: ExternalProject: Remove unnecessary 'svn --version' call

Stephen Kelly (13):
      Add features from KDE for arguments to qdbusxml2cpp.
      Remove unused define.
      Build each library only once instead of once for each test.
      Initialize LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES target property with a variable
      Also run moc automatically with Qt5.
      Fix typo.
      Don't assume the existence of QT_MAJOR_VERSION.
      Update comments and method names to not be Qt4 specific.
      Fix style.
      target_link_libraries: Trim trailing whitespace
      target_link_libraries: Add LINK_(PUBLIC|PRIVATE) options
      moc is now part of the Qt5Core module
      Add a test case for the use of Q_PRIVATE_SLOT.

Automating CPack/NSIS-built Installers Silently on Windows

David Cole — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:54:14 -0400

The CMake Win32 installer is built with NSIS, and as such, it supports some of the standard command line arguments that all such NSIS built installers do. If you build Windows installers for your project using NSIS and CPack, you can use this information with your installers, too.

Specifically, you can write a silent automatic install command line like so:

"C:\full\path\to\cmake-2.8.5-win32-x86.exe" /S /D=C:\path\to\install\to\with\no\spaces

Furthermore, you may silently call the uninstaller like so:

C:\path\to\install\to\with\no\spaces\Uninstall.exe /S

Importantly, (I've determined this empirically by experiment, so I may be stating things overly strictly here, but I don't think so....) you must have:

Most importantly, admin privileges -- this needs to be run in a "Run as Admin" type setting, or else Windows will prompt the user to see if it's ok to run an installer/uninstaller
the "/S" indicates "silent" and means do not show the gui for the installer/uninstaller
the "/D" must be the last argument you pass to the installer, indicating the root directory into which to install
Everything after the "/D=" should name the full path to a directory with "\" separator characters, (not with "/") *and* with no spaces in it. It is still possible in Windows to construct a valid 8.3 old-school DOS name for any file or directory, and if you need to install it in a path that does have spaces in it for real, then you'll have to construct the short name equivalent to pass with /D=

This approach definitely works with the latest release, CMake 2.8.6, and should work as far back as 2.8.0.

Since we have not documented this feature of the Windows installer anywhere, I thought this would be good fodder for a blog entry.

Ping me: leave a comment here if you use it to do something cool.