[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/cmake: bump version to 3.10.0 and add license hash
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Dec 19 08:39:47 UTC 2017
Hello,
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:15:42 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > I looke at my autobuilder, and it uses gcc-4.8.2, and cmake builds fine
> > with that...
>
> > gcc-4.8 was released in March 2013, which will be almost 5 years ago
> > when we tag LTS 2018.02. So maybe we can keep using cmake-3.9 up until
> > 2018.02, then update our requirements to require a host gcc >= 4.8m
> > which will allow us to bump cmake to 3.10.
>
> > I agree that, with time passing, more and more packages will require
> > C++11, so it will make sense to require proper C++11 support for the
> > host compiler.
>
> Yes, maybe that is indeed the best way forward - Post 2018.02 that is.
It feels a bit annoying to make such a change that would impact all
Buildroot users, just for the sole reason of an optimization down into
CMake.
I agree that we won't be able to avoid using a C++11 compiler on the
host at some point. I'm just trying to see if we can avoid this when
reasonably possible.
Thomas
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