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0010448

CMake

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public

2010-03-23 02:44

2010-12-14 18:50

Reporter

Frank May

Assigned To

David Cole

Priority

normal

Severity

crash

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

duplicate

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Product Version

CMake-2-8

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Summary

0010448: ExternalProject_Add does not work with existing SOURCE_DIR

Description

The documentation says: "If SOURCE_DIR is explicitly set to an existing directory the project will be built from it." So I assume setting SOURCE_DIR explicitly is supposed to skip the download step and build directly from the existing source.

Unfortunately, this is not working, but results in the error message:
"please specify existing SOURCE_DIR or one of URL, CVS_REPOSITORY and CVS_MODULE, SVN_REPOSITORY or DOWNLOAD_COMMAND"

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Additional Information

I tried the following command to include an automake-based sub-project that is part of the same repository as the main cmake-based project.

ExternalProject_Add(
  myproject
  PREFIX myproject
  SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/myproject
  CONFIGURE_COMMAND <SOURCE_DIR>/configure
)

Copying the source directory is not an option, as that loses the dependencies on the original source files and future calls to make will not properly rebuild the sub-project.