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0011166CMakeCMakepublic2010-08-24 14:222016-06-10 14:31
ReporterDavid Cole 
Assigned ToKitware Robot 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product VersionCMake-2-8 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0011166: Please improve error messages and documentation related to "cmake --build"
DescriptionFrom a posting by David Abrahams on the ryppl-dev@googlegroups.com mailing list:

    1. The documentation I can find for --build is at best quite sparse.
    Since I was starting with someone else's code, it wasn't there because
    I knew I needed it and added it myself; it was already present.
    Trying to figure out what it did was difficult for me in part because
    of...

    2. The term "Project binary directory" used in those docs does not
    sound to me like it means what it is, so I misinterpreted what was
    supposed to come next. For me, the term "(configured) CMake build
    directory" would be better.

    3. cmake --help says:

    Usage

     cmake [options] <path-to-source>
     cmake [options] <path-to-existing-build>

    Options
     ...
     --build <dir> = Build a CMake-generated project binary tree.

    which doesn't make it at all clear that when you use --build <dir>
    there's no additional <path-to-xxx> required on the command line

    4. "Could not load cache" is a terrible alias for "I looked in the
    argument to --build (`.') and it doesn't appear to be a configured
    build directory"


And David Cole's response:

I agree.

On all 4 points.

I've filed a bug that will hopefully become an action item to make things better. :-)
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2010-08-24 14:22David ColeNew Issue
2011-01-17 16:24David ColeAssigned To => David Cole
2011-01-17 16:24David ColeStatusnew => assigned
2011-10-25 22:16David ColeAssigned ToDavid Cole =>
2011-10-25 22:16David ColeStatusassigned => backlog
2016-06-10 14:28Kitware RobotNote Added: 0041740
2016-06-10 14:28Kitware RobotStatusbacklog => resolved
2016-06-10 14:28Kitware RobotResolutionopen => moved
2016-06-10 14:28Kitware RobotAssigned To => Kitware Robot
2016-06-10 14:31Kitware RobotStatusresolved => closed

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(0041740)
Kitware Robot   
2016-06-10 14:28   
Resolving issue as `moved`.

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