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

[Jonathan Roelofs]

On 4/8/15 2:32 PM, Zachary Turner wrote:
> When the line is like 400 characters, it's pretty obnoxious.

Can you break it up using variable substitutions?

>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:32 PM Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com
> <mailto:chisophugis at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com
>     <mailto: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
>
>
>
>         http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/manual/cmake-language.7.html#quoted-argument
>
>         "
>
>         Note
>
>         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."
>
>
>
>         On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:21 AM Renato Golin
>         <renato.golin at linaro.org <mailto:renato.golin at linaro.org>> wrote:
>
>             On 16 March 2015 at 18:00, Zachary Turner
>             <zturner at google.com <mailto: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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