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Re: CMake package contains Microsoft DLLs (was Re: CMake 2.2.3-1 ready)


At 04:16 AM 12/23/2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec  5 12:25, William A. Hoffman wrote:
>> There has been a new release of the official cmake (2.2.3-1).
>> This is a minor release from to 2.2.2 to 2.2.3.
>> 
>> Here are the required files:
>> 
>> ftp://www.cmake.org/pub/cmake/cygwin/setup.hint
>> ftp://www.cmake.org/pub/cmake/cygwin/cmake-2.2.3-1.tar.bz2
>> ftp://www.cmake.org/pub/cmake/cygwin/cmake-2.2.3-1-src.tar.bz2
>
>As per a report on the cygwin ML, this package contains three Microsoft
>DLLs in usr/bin.  I checked and the package actually contains these DLLs.
>
>This is a NO-NO, especially since it also creates very strange problems
>when running some Cygwin applications.
>
>I've removed the versions 2.2.3-1 from cygwin.com.  Please send a new
>version ASAP, which doesn't contain Microsoft DLLs.

Sorry about that.  It was not intentional or required by the cmake cygwin build.
It was part of the install process on win32, but should not have been done
for cygwin.   I have new version ready in the same place:


>> 
>> ftp://www.cmake.org/pub/cmake/cygwin/setup.hint
>> ftp://www.cmake.org/pub/cmake/cygwin/cmake-2.2.3-1.tar.bz2
>> ftp://www.cmake.org/pub/cmake/cygwin/cmake-2.2.3-1-src.tar.bz2


Thanks.

-Bill




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