for now, you do not need those dependencies.
I���m preparing the vm for use libgit2 with monticello (not ready yet) and to render UI using sdl2 through OSWindow (also not ready yet).
In the future you will need them to improve your pharo experience, but for now you can safely skip it.
nothing changed in the way cmake files are built, but previous versions didn���t have third party libraries for unix (now we have them).
if cmake is failing to download the libraries, it can happen because some versions/distributions of cmake does not allow ssl downloads��� no idea how to help there, maybe an updated cmake helps, maybe not.
but cmake tries always to download first from
http://files.pharo.org/vm/src/lib if it does not find it, maybe one interesting change is to add a previous check in some local repository (to do a simple copy instead a download).
I can do that, but it will take some time, as always :)
Esteban
No need as dependencies get loaded and built by the VM build process.
Works now, it was the CMake version bump that was needed.
Thx all for the help. (Can't we get a CentOS build slave???)
Phil