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

[Zachary Turner]

By that logic we shouldn't have an 80 column limit in LLVM :)

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:35 PM Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
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