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Kasper Laudrup a283e58b51 ExternalProject: Add DOWNLOAD_EXTRACT_TIMESTAMP option and policy
Add the option to keep the current filestamps when extracting an
archive in ExternalProject_Add.

Enabling this option makes the behavior consistent with how
ExternalProject_Add is used when checking out code from revision
control instead of an archive.

Fixes: #22746
2022-05-05 09:01:54 +10:00

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CMP0135
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.. versionadded:: 3.24
When using the ``URL`` download method with the :command:`ExternalProject_Add`
command, CMake 3.23 and below sets the timestamps of the extracted contents
to the same as the timestamps in the archive. When the ``URL`` changes, the
new archive is downloaded and extracted, but the timestamps of the extracted
contents might not be newer than the previous contents. Anything that depends
on the extracted contents might not be rebuilt, even though the contents may
change.
CMake 3.24 and above prefers to set the timestamps of all extracted contents
to the time of the extraction. This ensures that anything that depends on the
extracted contents will be rebuilt whenever the ``URL`` changes.
The ``DOWNLOAD_EXTRACT_TIMESTAMP`` option to the
:command:`ExternalProject_Add` command can be used to explicitly specify how
timestamps should be handled. When ``DOWNLOAD_EXTRACT_TIMESTAMP`` is not
given, this policy controls the default behavior. The ``OLD`` behavior for
this policy is to restore the timestamps from the archive. The ``NEW``
behavior sets the timestamps of extracted contents to the time of extraction.
This policy was introduced in CMake version 3.24. CMake version |release|
warns when the policy is not set and uses ``OLD`` behavior. Use the
:command:`cmake_policy` command to set it to ``OLD`` or ``NEW`` explicitly.
.. include:: DEPRECATED.txt