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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/5/2011 11:59 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 08:44 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> We currently use a custom(?) version of FindwxWidgets.cmake that was cherry
>> picked from a more current version of CMake than we were using at the time.
>> The problem is our version of FindwxWidgets is suffering from bit rot.  The
>> version in CMake 2.8.4 ( and possibly earlier ) has some enhances that make it
>> more usable when you have multiple versions wxWidgets installed on your system.
>>  I would like to remove our local version of FindwxWidgets.cmake and use the
>> one that ships with CMake.  Does anyone have any objections or reasons not to
>> do this?
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> No objections from me on the concept.   But realize that the topmost
> CMakeLists.txt in our cmake stack only requires 2.6.4 currently.  So nobody
> is forced into the new FindwxWidgets.cmake support, as perhaps you are
> assuming they should be or will be.

CMake 2.8 was release in November of 2009.  Maybe it's time to bump that up to
2.8.0?  I think most distros (even Debian) are up to the 2.8 version of CMake.
 I guess the other thing I could do is merge the changes from the latest
version into our local version if it can merged cleanly.

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> For MS Windows in particular (cross building from Linux or not, both), and
> other platforms too, I still say there is tremendous value in us providing
> cmake "external project" support to build wxWidgets and anything else that
> needs to be built.  This is a separate subject.  But I've given it some
> thought on how to best do it so we do not munge our current Kicad build
> cmake stack, which would remain as is.  Basically it would entail putting an
> *optional* CMakeList.txt wrapper around everything, platform dependent, and
> treating Kicad itself as an external project from there along with all the
> other external projects.

I think this is a good idea.  When (if?) I get some time, I will play around
with it but it's off my radar for right now.

Wayne

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> Dick
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