Removed hack to force linker type to msvc as it doesnt seem to be required anymore and causes issue on macOS/linux

Based on https://github.com/fastbuild/fastbuild/issues/632 it is not correct to use PreBuildDependencies as the node will not be rebuilt if the dependency changes, contrary to ExecInput

(CurrentSourceDirectory not CurrentBinaryDirectory)

Make it clear that the notes for these patch releases were not
forgotten, and that there were simply no changes to documented features
or interfaces.

Merge-request: !6248

Merge-request: !6249

In 5e941a54 (ExternalProject: Ensure git fetch if updating to hash we
don't have yet, 2021-05-09), the form ${ref}^{commit} was used to ensure
the ref was treated as a commit. When running under a MSYS2 or
Cygwin shell, the {commit} part can be translated by the shell, leaving it as
${ref}^commit, which git doesn't understand. Use the equivalent but
safer form ${ref}^0, since it won't be subject to the shell substitution
issue.

Fixes: #22299

Running `xcode -version` on an ARM box prints content to stderr:

    objc[...]: Class ... is implemented in both...
    One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

Capture and parse only stdout.  Otherwise we might configure test
behavior for the wrong version of Xcode.

Brad King authored 3 years ago and Kitware Robot committed 3 years ago

c017098d CMake: Allow override of unexpected non-flow-control commands

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !6232

Brad King authored 3 years ago and Kitware Robot committed 3 years ago

947f0c8b VS: Do not apply '/external:W*' flag table mapping on VS < 16.10
e59a208b cmGlobalVisualStudio10Generator: Adopt GetVSInstanceVersion method
d6d4af0e cmGlobalVisualStudio10Generator: Move static functions to anonymous namespace

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !6233

Since commit 9054cd05 (VS: Add flag table entries for '/external:W*'
flags in VS 16.10, 2021-05-28, v3.20.4~10^2) we map flags to the
`ExternalWarningLevel` element.  VS 16.9 does not support that element,
but its `cl` compiler does support the `/external:W*` flags.  Filter out
the flag table entry on older VS versions.

Fixes: #22308

Port from `cmGlobalVisualStudioVersionedGenerator`.

Fixes: #22310

Brad King authored 3 years ago and Kitware Robot committed 3 years ago

9c988784 gitlab-ci: update macOS jobs to use Xcode 12.5

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !6229

Brad King authored 3 years ago and Kitware Robot committed 3 years ago

e49cbf1d Help: cmake_path: fix erroneous example for IS_PREFIX

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !6223