[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#730636: Bug#730636: Fwd: Debian Bug "Do not always set CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to Release"

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 5 December 2013 11:50, Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 = wontfix
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> Hi Mathieu,
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> regarding this bug:
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>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730636
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> I talked to JC from Kitware (who contributed the patch), and his advice
> is the following:
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>> After setting the env:
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>> export CXXFLAGS=<whatever-value>
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>> and configuring passing
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>> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=None
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>> None of the default flags related to either Debug, Release,
>> RelWithDebInfo, .. are used. Only the one specified using CXXFLAGS.
>> This was confirmed after doing a small experiment.

BUILD_TYPE:STRING=None is the cmake default. One shouldn't
override/reselect anything else. Please see CMake documentation.
Default BUILD_TYPE shouldn't change across different packages using
CMake, as that breaks transparent inclusion / building CMake packages.
If such change is desired, it should be done by CMake, in CMake
upstream, not on per package change.
This will bite us later on...

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