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

[Reid Kleckner]

Ubuntu 14.04 has 2.8.12.2. I'd be happy raising the minimum to that.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
wrote:

>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Chris Bieneman <beanz at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> It came up on another thread that our current minimum required CMake
>> version 2.8.8, has some bugs that cause issues when building with MSVC +
>> Ninja, and one potential solution was to raise the minimum required version
>> of CMake.
>>
>> CMake 3.0 is now 6 months old and CMake 3.1 has been released. I would
>> like to propose moving our minimum required CMake version to 3.0.
>>
>> I’ve attached patches to enforce the change in case anyone wants to test
>> it out.
>>
>> Thoughts/comments/concerns/objections?
>>
>
> What is the latest version of CMake available for supported LTS versions
> of ubuntu? The analogous other linux distros? I think if we can, we should
> preserve support for their pre-installed CMake versions to make
> bootstrapping easier.
>
> I think it is fine to let folks that want to use Ninja on Windows grab a
> more recent CMake -- this shouldn't block the 2013 stuff at all.
>
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