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

[Zachary Turner]

I just shortened the line into something less descriptive.  In any case,
I'm just posting these things here as I find them so that if we ever have
the discussion again, all of the things that came up in the interim won't
be forgotten.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:45 PM Jonathan Roelofs <jonathan at codesourcery.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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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>
> --
> Jon Roelofs
> jonathan at codesourcery.com
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