CMake >3.20 warns on missing policy

[alexanderbock]

CMake Warning (dev) at ext/glbinding/CMakeLists.txt:47 (include):
  Policy CMP0120 is not set: The WriteCompilerDetectionHeader module is
  removed.  Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0120" for policy details.  Use the
  cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress this warning.

This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

Calling set_policy(CMP0120 NEW) in the root CMakelists.txt results in:

CMake Error at ext/glbinding/source/glbinding-aux/CMakeLists.txt:179 (file):
  file COPY cannot find
  "A:/<proj>/ext/glbinding/source/codegeneration/glbinding-aux_features.h":
  No such file or directory.

[scheibel]

Thanks for reporting.
I had a quick look at the policy CMP0120 and conclude that the NEW behavior effectively breaks the build, as you report, too.
In fact, our use case of this features header is now deprecated and discouraged for use by CMake.

The short-term approach will be to set the policy to OLD and migrate glbinding and our other projects to other dependencies to replace this features header.

[nigels-com]

Bumped into this trying to bump cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.21)

[lunar-natalie]

This still pops up when building:

CMake Deprecation Warning at glbinding/cmake/Custom.cmake:6 (cmake_policy):
  The OLD behavior for policy CMP0120 will be removed from a future version
  of CMake.

  The cmake-policies(7) manual explains that the OLD behaviors of all
  policies are deprecated and that a policy should be set to OLD only under
  specific short-term circumstances.  Projects should be ported to the NEW
  behavior and not rely on setting a policy to OLD.

@scheibel As you said, this was a short-term approach – however we're a few years down the line now so I thought I'd bump the thread :)

NB: I'm using CMake 4.1.1 so I'm not sure if this occurs using CMake 3 or not. Currently I'm including glbinding as an external dependency using add_subdirectory in another project, so I've temporarily resorted to setting CMAKE_WARN_DEPRECATED to suppress the warning.