[CMake] command line build and install on OSX

[Mike Jackson]

Here is my recommendation:

Rebuild CMake with a CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX of /Applications/CMake  
(with the Qt option)

sudo make install

remove the cmake stuff from /usr/local/*

After cmake builds and installs you will need to ensure that you have  
write permissions to /opt/local/bin.
Launch CMake-Gui.app and use the GUI menu to create the sym links for  
you.

The main problem is that typically /usr/local needs higher privs than  
admin on OS X (depending on how it was setup). The CMake-GUI app does  
NOT take advantage of the authentication framework in OS X to  
authenticate you as an admin so trying to create the symlinks where  
the active user does NOT have write permissions will fail **.

The way I have done this is to "install" cmake into /Applications/ 
CMake. Make /Applications/CMake writable by everyone, then have CMake- 
GUI create the symlinks in /Applications/CMake. Then add / 
Applications/CMake to your PATH variable AHEAD of /opt/local/bin.

Just my 2 cents.

** I guess I should look at how to implement that and submit a patch***

*** Not that I am volunteering to write the code.. ;-)  (yet)
-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Darren Weber wrote:

>
> I've got a cvs checkout of CMake-2-6-1.
>
> I created a build directory and configured first for a Qt GUI.  The  
> build completed and installed into /usr/local/CMake 2.6-1.app/.   
> Then, to ensure this version is in the default Applications directory:
> sudo cp -rf /usr/local/CMake* /Applications/
>
> I then tried to use the GUI interface to create symlinks for the  
> command line (Tools > Install for Command Line Use), but it failed.
>
> I then reconfigured the build for a curses interface, built, and  
> installed that.  It installed:
>
> -- Installing: /usr/local/bin/ccmake
> -- Installing: /usr/local/bin/cmake
> -- Installing: /usr/local/bin/cmakexbuild
> -- Installing: /usr/local/bin/cpack
> -- Installing: /usr/local/bin/ctest
>
> That's fine, but on this OSX system, cmake was first installed by  
> macports into /opt/local/bin/ and this is the first entry on the  
> $PATH.  So I could re-route the path or overwrite the macports  
> install with symlinks to this build (I prefer the latter).
>
> Is there a command line utility or a make instruction to create all  
> the symlinks?  Does it have an option to specify the root bin  
> directory?  Something like:
>
> make symlinks /usr/bin
>
> or
>
> make symlinks /opt/local/bin
>
> Thanks, Darren
>
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