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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>A while ago, when 2.8.2 came out, I installed it and found that it hung processing our CMakeLists.txt. There doesn’t seem to be any debugging ability in the code, so we went back to 2.8.1. Today I decided to try the latest & greatest (2.8.6): same result. This seems…bad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>It works fine with 2.8.1; with 2.8.2 and later, it hangs before it even says:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>-- The C compiler identification is unknown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>With some brutally crude MESSAGE statements, I’ve determined that it hangs in CMakeDetermineCCompiler.cmake, on the line:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>CMAKE_DETERMINE_COMPILER_ID(C CFLAGS CMakeCCompilerId.c)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>But I don’t know what that line is doing (I mean, I can guess, but it looks like it’s going into some primitive and never coming back).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I don’t have Windows debugging tools (or skills). Suggestions?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>…phsiii<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Phil Smith III<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:phil@voltage.com">phil@voltage.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Voltage Security, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.voltage.com">www.voltage.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>