[CMake] Cmake 2.8.2 Bug under windows

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri Aug 13 14:24:47 EDT 2010


On 8/12/2010 8:36 PM, J Decker wrote:
> cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" /test

The path "/test" is not a valid full path on windows.
That syntax is used by many tools for command line options.
If I use a backslash instead:

   cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" \test

I get

CMake Error: The source directory "C:/build/test" does not exist.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.

IMO the only bug here is that CMake does not complain that
the given path is malformed.  Take a look at Source/cmake.cxx
in the method "cmake::SetDirectoriesFromFile".  The path should
be the argument to this method.  Somewhere in this function
before it does a call to SetHomeDirectory should be taught to
catch this.

-Brad


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