This PR fixes a CMake scoping bug that made `-DLEAN_VERSION_*` overrides
ineffective.
The version variables (`LEAN_VERSION_MAJOR`, `MINOR`, `PATCH`,
`IS_RELEASE`) were declared with plain `set()`, which creates normal
variables that shadow cache variables set by `-D` on the command line.
The fix changes them to `CACHE STRING ""` to match the existing
`LEAN_SPECIAL_VERSION_DESC` pattern.
However, `CACHE STRING ""` alone isn't sufficient because `project(LEAN
CXX C)` implicitly creates empty `LEAN_VERSION_{MAJOR,MINOR,PATCH}`
normal variables (CMake sets `<PROJECT>_VERSION_*` for the project
name). These shadow the cache values, so we `unset()` them after the
cache declarations to let `${VAR}` fall through to the cache.
Closes https://github.com/leanprover/lean4/issues/12681🤖 Prepared with Claude Code
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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