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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2017-08-11 13:19:05 -0400
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2017-08-16 10:13:38 -0400
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Require C++11 to build CMake itself
CMake can now compile as C++11 on all supported platforms. Check that std::unique_ptr is available and fail early if missing. This will allow us to use C++11 more broadly in CMake's implementation (previously it was restricted to the serve mode implementation). Co-Author: Daniel Pfeifer <daniel@pfeifer-mail.de>
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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Building CMake from Scratch
UNIX/Mac OSX/MinGW/MSYS/Cygwin
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-You need to have a compiler and a make installed.
+You need to have a C++ compiler (supporting C++11) and a ``make`` installed.
Run the ``bootstrap`` script you find in the source directory of CMake.
You can use the ``--help`` option to see the supported options.
You may use the ``--prefix=<install_prefix>`` option to specify a custom