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-# - Check whether the CXX compiler supports a given flag.
-# CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAG(<flag> <var>)
-#  <flag> - the compiler flag
-#  <var>  - variable to store the result
-# This internally calls the check_cxx_source_compiles macro.  See help
-# for CheckCXXSourceCompiles for a listing of variables that can
-# modify the build.
-
-#=============================================================================
-# Copyright 2006-2010 Kitware, Inc.
-# Copyright 2006 Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@kde.org>
-# Copyright 2011 Matthias Kretz <kretz@kde.org>
-#
-# Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD License (the "License");
-# see accompanying file Copyright.txt for details.
-#
-# This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
-# implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-# See the License for more information.
-#=============================================================================
-# (To distribute this file outside of CMake, substitute the full
-#  License text for the above reference.)
-
-INCLUDE(CheckCXXSourceCompiles)
-
-MACRO (CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAG _FLAG _RESULT)
-   SET(SAFE_CMAKE_REQUIRED_DEFINITIONS "${CMAKE_REQUIRED_DEFINITIONS}")
-   SET(CMAKE_REQUIRED_DEFINITIONS "${_FLAG}")
-   CHECK_CXX_SOURCE_COMPILES("int main() { return 0;}" ${_RESULT}
-     # Some compilers do not fail with a bad flag
-     FAIL_REGEX "command line option .* is valid for .* but not for C\\\\+\\\\+" # GNU
-     FAIL_REGEX "unrecognized .*option"                     # GNU
-     FAIL_REGEX "unknown .*option"                          # Clang
-     FAIL_REGEX "invalid value"                             # Clang
-     FAIL_REGEX "ignoring unknown option"                   # MSVC
-     FAIL_REGEX "warning D9002"                             # MSVC, any lang
-     FAIL_REGEX "option.*not supported"                     # Intel
-     FAIL_REGEX "invalid argument .*option"                 # Intel
-     FAIL_REGEX "ignoring option .*argument required"       # Intel
-     FAIL_REGEX "[Uu]nknown option"                         # HP
-     FAIL_REGEX "[Ww]arning: [Oo]ption"                     # SunPro
-     FAIL_REGEX "command option .* is not recognized"       # XL
-     FAIL_REGEX "not supported in this configuration; ignored"       # AIX
-     FAIL_REGEX "File with unknown suffix passed to linker" # PGI
-     FAIL_REGEX "WARNING: unknown flag:"                    # Open64
-     )
-   SET (CMAKE_REQUIRED_DEFINITIONS "${SAFE_CMAKE_REQUIRED_DEFINITIONS}")
-ENDMACRO (CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAG)