amazonlinux
[Package Addition] - cmake4
What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2023? Please describe and include package name. cmake is currently very old from 2022.
Available in al2023: 3.22.2-1.amzn2023.0.4
Latest cmake 3.x 3.31.8
Latest cmake 4.x 4.0.3
https://cmake.org/download/
Is this an update to existing package or new package request? update to existing package
Any additional information you'd like to include. (use-cases, etc) I want to build pyarrow and it complains with: CMake 3.25 or higher is required. You are running version 3.22.2
It's very unlikely that we'll update cmake to 4.x as this would break too much stuff (well ... I assume it would). Even minor version updates aren't without some risk, though I noticed CentOS 9 is ahead of us (3.26).
It might be possible to provide cmake4 namespaced like we did cmake3 in AL2, it was a very difficult process (160kB+ patch) to do that. Maybe cmake4 lends itself better, I don't know (yet).
I'll poke the owning team see what they think.
This: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CMake4.0 shows that just updating our existing distro to cmake4 isn't really a great idea at this point.
Same happened on openSUSE. Switching to cmake 4 needs significant distribution wide touching for many packages. The work should be to make pyarrow build (or provide it), rather than concentrating on the cmake versiojn.
