[Cmake] CMake and amd (NFS automounter)

[Bill Hoffman]

Sounds like an RPI specific problem.  

So you have /home/amitha
and getcwd returns /mount2/homedirs/amitha,
but on another machine you get:
/mount3/homedirs/amitha,

Is that the problem?

-Bill


At 12:01 PM 8/16/2001 -0400, Amitha Perera wrote:
>I'm trying to get CMake and amd work nicely. The issue, essentially,
>is that calls to getcwd and pwd need to be replaced by calls to "amq
>-w", which will return a path that is valid system-wide, as opposed to
>just on local disk.
>
>I've done this by having a cache variable CMAKE_AMQ and, in
>GetCurrentWorkingDirectory(), using this to get current directory. The
>problem occurs when cmake is run for the first time in a new
>project. At this point, there is no cache, so the CMAKE_AMQ is not
>set. Therefore, the home (source and binary) directories are not
>amd-paths, they are just regular paths. cmake then runs it's usual
>initialisation and finds amq, but it is too late: the wrong paths for
>the home directories have been recorded.
>
>Can anyone think of a clean way to solve this issue? One possibility
>is to hard-code knownledge into cmake, so that cmake is compiled with
>amq or it is not. I was hoping to have a more dynamic approach, where,
>when a new project is started, cmake will determine if amd is being
>used on the system or not, and react appropriately.
>
>Thanks,
>Amitha.
>
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