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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] cmake, linker flags, whitespace, cmp0004

From: Martin Kaiser <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 11:58:30 +0200
Hi J�rg,

Thus wrote Joerg Mayer (jmayer@xxxxxxxxx):

> Hello Martin,

> is this problem still open?

yes, it's still open. Just tried it again on master.

Best regards,
Martin

> Thanks
>    J�rg

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 03:14:32PM +0200, Martin Kaiser wrote:
> > I'm getting strange cmake errors on Debian Wheezy (cmake 2.8.9).

> > -- Performing Test WS_LD_FLAG_VALID0
> > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:11 (ADD_EXECUTABLE):
> >   Target "cmTryCompileExec701976172" links to item " -Wl,--as-needed" which
> >   has leading or trailing whitespace.  This is now an error according to
> >   policy CMP0004.


> > CMake Error: Internal CMake error, TryCompile generation of cmake failed
> > -- Performing Test WS_LD_FLAG_VALID0 - Failed
> > statuscheck linker flag - test linker flags: -pie
> > -- Performing Test WS_LD_FLAG_VALID1
> > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:11 (ADD_EXECUTABLE):
> >   Target "cmTryCompileExec2930916065" links to item " -pie" which has leading
> >   or trailing whitespace.  This is now an error according to policy
> > CMP0004.

> > CMake Error: Internal CMake error, TryCompile generation of cmake failed



> > Apparently, cmake doesn't like leading whitespace in linker options. I
> > tried setting the CMP0004 policy to the old behaviour which is not
> > ignore the whitespace.

> > cmake_policy(SET CMP0004 OLD)

> > This doesn't fix things. Google results show that this is in fact a bug
> > in cmake's parsing.

> > KDE discovered the bug in their build
> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.buildsystem/7858

> > Cmake fixed it here
> > https://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=e65ef08b


> > I tried to work around this by removing whitespace from the linker flags
> > or applying a regexp replace on the final list of linker flags.
> > None of this produced a clean and readable solution.

> > Does anyone more familiar with cmake have a recommendation how to fix
> > this properly?

> -- 
> Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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