[vtkusers] VTK nightly build issue

[Brad King]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Joshua A Foster wrote:

> I downloaded the nightly version January 20 via CVS and got the latest
> CMake binaries for Linux (1.8.3).  When I run ccmake, I get the
> following error:
>
> CMake Error: An attempt was made to access a variable:
> CMAKE_WORDS_BIGENDIAN that has not been defined. Some variables were
> always defined by CMake in versions prior to 1.6. To fix this you might
> need to set the cache value of CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY to 1.4 or
> less. If you are writing a CMakeList file, (or have already set
> CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATABILITY to 1.4 or less) then you probably need to
> include a CMake module to test for the feature this variable defines.
>
> I get this error twice with CMAKE_WORDS_BIGENDIAN and a third time with
> CMAKE_SIZEOF_INT.  Setting the compatibility to 1.4 as suggested
> doesn't work; I get the same errors.  Can anybody help?

This may mean that your CC environment variable is pointing to a C++
compiler.  I'm now fixing CMake to produce a better error message in that
case.

-Brad