CMake tutorial chapters are vague or wrong on versions
Several chapters are vague, misworded or factually wrong about version and compiler behavior, confusing readers.
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6 public reports · first reported 11 April 2019 · last reported 13 May 2025
What's going wrong
Readers of the modern-cmake tutorial report that several chapters are hard to follow or factually off when they discuss CMake and compiler versions.
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