[CMake] CMakeSetup broken, fails in the root directory

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Sat Jul 22 08:48:37 EDT 2006


At 02:57 AM 7/22/2006, Dataflow wrote:
>I have several small utilities and trial programs, each zipped up nicely with its own CMakeLists.txt file and stashed away for a rainy day.
>Say:
>--------------
>project(test)
> 
>add_executable(test
>    test.cpp
>    )
>--------------
>When needed, these are unzipped in the RAMDRIVE and compiled there. Use of ramdrive makes it easy to just copy the resulting exe and do the cleanup.
> 
>With 2.4.2, the CMakeSetup has started to fail while recognizing the source files, saying that "can not find file g:test.cpp", where g: is the ramdrive. This happens for within-source & out-of-source builds. I have tried using 'g:\', 'g:/', 'g:' ....
>I have verified that this fails also in the other root directories, such as c:\, d:\ etc.
> 
>This used to work with the earlier versions, that's why I have several of these.

We need more information to debug this.  Can you post a complete example and instructions on
how to run CMakeSetup to cause the failure?

-Bill



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