[CMake] Building Cmake

Pau Garcia i Quiles pgquiles at elpauer.org
Fri Jan 11 08:23:03 EST 2008


Quoting Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>:

> mostafa charmi wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I have OpenSuse 10.3 as my OS. I tried to install
>> Cmake- 2.4.7 on it, but the following error message
>> was displayed on screen:
>>
>> "Error when bootstrapping CMake:
>> Cannot find appropriate C compiler on this system.
>> Please specify one using environment variable CC.
>> See cmake_bootstrap.log for compilers attempted."
>>
>>
>> I saw the cmake-bootstrap.log file, but I could not
>> get it. I will appreciate if you can help me to fix
>> the problem.
>>
>
> You need to post more information.  Can you just use the binary from
> the cmake download page for linux?  If not, you need to post the errors
> from the cmake_boostrap.log file to this list.

I don't think it's that simple but, might it be he has not installed  
gcc/g++? (at least that's what the error says)

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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