[CMake] ExternalProject_Add + issues with env & auto-conf.

[David Cole]

What version are these stock i386 binaries you speak of?
Where did they come from?

For 2.8.1 and earlier the problem did not exist.
For 2.8.2, the problem did exist.
It should be fixed again in 2.8.3-rc2 and later.



On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Tim St. Clair <timothysc at gmail.com> wrote:

> b4 I do this, because it's a non-trivial investment on a
> non-heterogeneous build cluster, can you explain why the i386 stock
> binaries behave differently?
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> > Try the 2.8.3 release candidate.
> >
> > In 2.8.2 the untar did not preserve file times, and this could cause
> > auto-make to rerun when it really did not need to.
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> >
> > On 10/19/2010 3:21 PM, Tim St. Clair wrote:
> >>
> >> I've been able to consistently repro an issue using
> >> ExternalProject_Add w/a configure build of cmake v.s. the i386
> >> binaries online shows an issue whenever a it tries to call auto-conf
> >> or auto-make as if the environment is hosed.  When I use the stock
> >> i386 binaries I do not see this issue and I'm able to build external
> >> projects.
> >>
> >> The test example in question is the following:
> >>
> >>
> >> set (LIBXML2_VER libxml2-2.7.3 )
> >>                ExternalProject_Add( libxml2
> >>                                   DEPENDS zlib
> >>                                    PREFIX
> >> ${EXTERNAL_BUILD_PREFIX}/${LIBXML2_VER}
> >>                                    #-- Download Step ----------
> >>                                    DOWNLOAD_COMMAND wget -N
> >> http://parrot.cs.wisc.edu/externals/${LIBXML2_VER}.tar.gz ${CMD_TERM}
> >>                                    DOWNLOAD_DIR ${EXTERNAL_DL}
> >>                                    URL
> >> http://parrot.cs.wisc.edu/externals/${LIBXML2_VER}.tar.gz
> >>                                    #--Configure step ----------
> >>                                    CONFIGURE_COMMAND  ./configure
> >> --prefix=${EXTERNAL_STAGE}
> >> --disable-shared --with-zlib=${EXTERNAL_STAGE}
> >>                                    #--Build Step ----------
> >>                                    BUILD_COMMAND make
> >>                                    BUILD_IN_SOURCE 1
> >>                                    #--install Step ----------
> >>                                    INSTALL_DIR ${EXTERNAL_STAGE}
> >>                                    INSTALL_COMMAND make install )
> >
> >
> > --
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