Re: cmake circular dependency

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2026-07-24 at 12:55 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I'm not sure there's real value in intentionally having cmake-minimal be
> really old, vs just updated judiciously, rather than reflexively without
> considering the implications when there's a release.   Having build skew
> between cmake and cmake-minimal seems seriously unhelpful, and the newer
> cmake-minimal is, the less of that.  There's a least-total-pain tradeoff
> someplace.

I'm currently working on it, and chose 3.31.6 as the baseline.  4.x
required us to patch a bunch of packages, so I don't really understand 
why we were so aggressive in updating.

Is there even a single package out there that requires >=4.0?  The only 
CMAKE_REQD I can see is this one:

  devel/kdiff3/Makefile:CMAKE_REQD+=              3.1

which is hardly modern.

All it needs to do is build all packages correctly, ideally with the 
absolute fewest features enabled.  Users who want extra cmake features 
for their projects outside of pkgsrc can just use the main package.

I'll dump this in my trees for a bit of a shake-out first.

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