CheckSymbolExists: Use IMMEDIATE flag for configure_file (#11333)

The test "complex" sets the variable CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY
to 1.4. When that variable is set, configure_file does not default
to IMMEDIATE mode processing. And so, the output file likely does
not exist yet by the time the next line in the CMakeLists.txt file
is processed. When that next line is "try_compile" on that file,
this is a problem.

Fix the problem by explicitly using IMMEDIATE in the configure_file
call.

This problem was quite mysterious, as it only showed up on the
"complex" test, when the previous commit introduced a CheckSymbolExists
call into the FindThreads module. Which is not even explicitly included
in the "complex" test... FindThreads gets included indirectly only
as a side effect of setting CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY to 1.4 and
even then it's included indirectly by auto-inclusion of
CMakeBackwardCompatibilityC.cmake...

Wow. Just wow.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Modules/CheckSymbolExists.cmake b/Modules/CheckSymbolExists.cmake
index be7d658..183b2bb 100644
--- a/Modules/CheckSymbolExists.cmake
+++ b/Modules/CheckSymbolExists.cmake
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ MACRO(_CHECK_SYMBOL_EXISTS SOURCEFILE SYMBOL FILES VARIABLE)
       "${CMAKE_CONFIGURABLE_FILE_CONTENT}\nvoid cmakeRequireSymbol(int dummy,...){(void)dummy;}\nint main()\n{\n#ifndef ${SYMBOL}\n  cmakeRequireSymbol(0,&${SYMBOL});\n#endif\n  return 0;\n}\n")
 
     CONFIGURE_FILE("${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/CMakeConfigurableFile.in"
-      "${SOURCEFILE}" @ONLY)
+      "${SOURCEFILE}" @ONLY IMMEDIATE)
 
     MESSAGE(STATUS "Looking for ${SYMBOL}")
     TRY_COMPILE(${VARIABLE}