CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS now notes that space-delimited string, not
;-list is required, which could be surprising compared to similar
options that do use ;-list
Modify some modules that ship with CMake to use the new SOURCES_FROM_*
arguments to try_compile / try_run as added by commits cb14ae2b87
(try_compile: Add SOURCE_FROM_{ARG,VAR}, 2022-09-21) and 611d801790
(try_compile: Add SOURCE_FROM_FILE, 2022-09-22). This covers users which
previously either used an existing file (but sometimes needed to rename
it), or which wrote out their source in entirety. It does NOT cover
users that actually need configure_file functionality, as those will be
more involved to update and will thus be tackled in part 2.
* Replace '::' by '.. code-block:: cmake' wherever it makes sense.
* Convert to definition list where appropriate.
* Prefer '<placeholder>' over 'placeholder'.
Currently the implementation macro for `check_symbol_exists` is
`_check_symbol_exists`, which impedes CMake users from overriding the
`check_symbol_exists` macro themselves.
Per-source copyright/license notice headers that spell out copyright holder
names and years are hard to maintain and often out-of-date or plain wrong.
Precise contributor information is already maintained automatically by the
version control tool. Ultimately it is the receiver of a file who is
responsible for determining its licensing status, and per-source notices are
merely a convenience. Therefore it is simpler and more accurate for
each source to have a generic notice of the license name and references to
more detailed information on copyright holders and full license terms.
Our `Copyright.txt` file now contains a list of Contributors whose names
appeared source-level copyright notices. It also references version control
history for more precise information. Therefore we no longer need to spell
out the list of Contributors in each source file notice.
Replace CMake per-source copyright/license notice headers with a short
description of the license and links to `Copyright.txt` and online information
available from "https://cmake.org/licensing". The online URL also handles
cases of modules being copied out of our source into other projects, so we
can drop our notices about replacing links with full license text.
Run the `Utilities/Scripts/filter-notices.bash` script to perform the majority
of the replacements mechanically. Manually fix up shebang lines and trailing
newlines in a few files. Manually update the notices in a few files that the
script does not handle.
Ancient versions of CMake required else(), endif(), and similar block
termination commands to have arguments matching the command starting the
block. This is no longer the preferred style.
Run the following shell code:
for c in else endif endforeach endfunction endmacro endwhile; do
echo 's/\b'"$c"'\(\s*\)(.\+)/'"$c"'\1()/'
done >convert.sed &&
git ls-files -z -- bootstrap '*.cmake' '*.cmake.in' '*CMakeLists.txt' |
egrep -z -v '^(Utilities/cm|Source/kwsys/)' |
egrep -z -v 'Tests/CMakeTests/While-Endwhile-' |
xargs -0 sed -i -f convert.sed &&
rm convert.sed
