[Cmake] Re: [Dart] Configuration command, Symlinks in paths

[Stefan Schmidt]

On Tuesday 20 May 2003 15:19, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> I don't think you can count on this behavior.    It would really depend
> on the project.   There is no guarantee that all paths in the resulting
> makefiles will preserve symlinks.   Many of the commands in cmake will
> find the absolute path.  Future versions of cmake are not even
> guaranteed to keep this same behavior, as it was unintended in the fist
> place.

Why is it unintended? 
I really need this feature! There are symlinks in my filesystem pointing to 
automounted NFS paths, which are not the same on each machine. But as I want 
to use the compiled binaries on multiple machines, the compilation needs to 
keep the common symlink in the path (it's an absolut path, not a relative 
one). Otherwise the rpath in the binaries would be wrong, and when compiling 
ITK, for example, even the configuration files ITKConfig.cmake would be 
wrong.

Stefan

>
> -Bill
>
> At 05:16 AM 5/20/2003, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> >Dear Dart maintainers,
> >
> >could we please change the Dart configuration file Utility.conf.in to call
> >CMake with the -H and -B options? If CMake is called like this, it
> > preserves the symlinks in the paths:
> >
> >ConfigureCommand: "@CMAKE_COMMAND@" -H at PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR@
> >-B at PROJECT_BINARY_DIR@
> >
> >Thanks!
> >Stefan Schmidt
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