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

[Sean Silva]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:

> When the line is like 400 characters, it's pretty obnoxious.
>


I guess I'd need to see the particular situation, but in my experience most
editors will wrap the line for you in a reasonable-enough way.

-- Sean Silva


>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:32 PM Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> LLVM Developers mailing list
>>> LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu         http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
>>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
>>>
>>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20150408/667469be/attachment.html>