[CMake] No Such File or Directory

[Jakub Zakrzewski]

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From: CMake [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf Of Alan W. Irwin
Sent: Sonntag, 17. August 2014 01:51
To: David Zemon
Cc: cmake at cmake.org
Subject: Re: [CMake] No Such File or Directory

On 2014-08-16 15:02-0500 David Zemon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After downloading the 3.0.1 binary Linux distribution of CMake, I am 
> running into the following bash error:
>
>   *david at fresh-ubuntu:~/**PropWare/util$* cmake
                                            ^ ==> that is a prompt followed by a blank so it looks like there is no actual path in front of your cmake invocation.

>   bash: /home/david/cmake-3.0.1-Linux-i386/bin/cmake: No such file or
>   directory

I am pretty sure this issue is due to a very long-standing Linux security feature where you have to specify executables using a path in front of the name, i.e., from that directory invoke cmake with

./cmake

or from anywhere invoke it with the full pathname, e.g.,

/home/david/cmake-3.0.1-Linux-i386/bin/cmake

Hope this guess is right.

Alan

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Hi,

I think you didn't read careful enough. David tries once withou and second time with full path. Furthermore, the `which` command can find cmake, what means it's somewhere in the PATH, so there's no need to specify full path by invokation (do you specify full path when invoking `grep` for example? - I don't think so.)

So apparently system cannot find some file, but it's not the CMake executable itself. Marcel Loose's answer makes a lot of sense to me.

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Gruesse,
Jakub