Re: cmake circular dependency

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost> writes:

> * On 2026-07-24 at 13:11 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>>Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost> writes:
>>
>>> * On 2026-07-24 at 12:55 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm currently working on it, and chose 3.31.6 as the baseline.
>>
>>I know you said you chose 3.31.6, but I think we should have the most
>>recent 3.x that does not cause problems.   Older is not better, in
>>general
>
> My aim was to choose the latest 3.x.  I copied 3.31.6 as the version
> that I used when I last had a look at working on a minimal build but I
> can see that they are up to 3.31.12 so I will update it to that.

Sorry, I had in my head that there were much higher 3.x versions, like
3.44.  I think I have cmake versions crossed with some thing else.


But I still think that if we can remediate main cmake, perhaps just
addding a 'cmake-full' metapackage that wraps cmake and curl, it could
be enough with far less change.