[LLVMdev] [RFC] Raise minimum required CMake version to 3.0

[Sean Silva]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:

> Just found another issue with CMake versions prior to 3.0.  I need to
> write a long string, and prior to 3.0 there is no line continuation for
> quoted arguments.  This might seem minor, but it's one of those things that
> when you need to do it, it's really annoying for there to be no good
> workaround  :-/
>

Can't you just use longer lines? Seems pretty straightforward.

-- Sean Silva


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> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/manual/cmake-language.7.html#quoted-argument
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> Note
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> CMake versions prior to 3.0 do not support continuation with \. They
> report errors in quoted arguments containing lines ending in an odd number
> of \ characters."
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> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:21 AM Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>
> wrote:
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>> On 16 March 2015 at 18:00, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
>> > We can always just say "if you want to self host, you need 3.0 or
>> higher",
>> > but thought I would add this to the thread anyway.
>>
>> I think that would be wiser, especially it being an undocumented
>> feature. But thanks for the heads up.
>>
>> cheers,
>> --renato
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