[Cmake] Bug reports?

[Andy Cedilnik]

Hi Bill,

The bug page is: http://www . cmake . org/Bug
I will add a link at some point. Sorry. The bug reporting is in the
testing stage, so we have not done nearly as much advertising, as we
should.

What version of CMake are you testing? The CMake up to early 1.7 uses
autoconf for bootstrapping. The current CVS version uses shell script
called bootstrap, which does obey things like prefix...

				Andy

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 06:32, William Gropp wrote:
> I could not find a way to submit a bug report at www.cmake.org , so I'm 
> trying this address.  Apologies in advance if this isn't the right place.
> 
> 1) There should be a clear way to submit bug reports described on the web 
> pages.  The FAQ should have a "bug" entry.
> 
> 2) The cmake configure accepts standard autoconf command line arguments but 
> then silently ignores them.  For example, I tried
> 
>      ./configure --prefix=/home/me/mylocal/cmake
>      make
>      make install
> 
> and had cmake install into /usr/local !
> 
> The best fix would be to change cmake to follow standard installation 
> practice, allowing the user to set prefix, execprefix, mandir, etc.  The 
> fall-back fix is to use AC_MSG_ERROR to let the user know that those 
> options are not supported, testing for any change from the defaults.  An 
> alternative would be to avoid using configure altogether until cmake can 
> accept the standard directory arguments that configure (and everyone that 
> uses a configure-enabled program) expects.