Re: cmake versioning issue (was: Re: [hatari-devel] readline ?)

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 12/13/20 1:37 AM, Roger Burrows wrote:
> On 13 Dec 2020 at 1:08, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > What the heck you're using?  Oldest CMake package
> > version still listed for Debian based systems that
> > I found, was CMake v3.0.2, for Debian 8, which is
> > still getting commercial extended long time
> > support.
> I'm using Linux Mint 17.3 which is LTS (although I think the LTS might have
> ended this year anyway).  I onlu use Linux for EmuTOS development, so in
> general keeping up to date is not that important to me.  "All software is
> experimental or obsolete".  I prefer obsolete.

Well, if it's connected to network, security
updates are kind of nice...


> As I said, cmake v3.05 is available, but since the text for the commit in
> question specified v3.17 or later, updating to v3.05 seemed pointless.

Commit 13dc6356 was to fix warning with CMake
v3.17, not to require that version.


> If I run into more issues, I'll update my distro.  But you really ought to
> change readme.txt, it's wrong.

Will do, once I know I know what's needed.
Minimum required CMake version being
2.8 < x <= 3.13 is too vague. :-/


	- Eero