[CMake] Installation Problems on IRIX64 v6.5

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Mon Jul 11 09:34:13 EDT 2005


Do not set CMAKE_ROOT, and it should work fine.

-Bill


At 09:31 AM 7/11/2005, Jonathan LAU wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I simply downloaded the latest release (2.0.6) from cmake.org -- for me, the cmake-2.0.6-irix64-n32.tar.gz package.
>
>Under lau/CMake, I performed the following ops:
>> gunzip cmake-2.0.6-irix64-n32.tar.gz package
>> tar xvf cmake-2.0.6-irix64-n32.tar
>> tar xvf cmake-2.0.6-irix64-n32-files.tar
>> setenv CMAKE_ROOT lau/CMake
>> cd bin
>> ccmake -v
>
>resulting in the CMake Error message specified previously.
>
>Please advise
>
>On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:57:02AM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote:
>> I think you need to back up a bit.  
>> 
>> 1. Why is the binary not working for you?
>> 
>> 2. What commands did you use to build/install the cmake that does not work?
>> 
>> -Bill
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 05:27 PM 7/10/2005, Jonathan LAU wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I have been running into some problems installing cmake on an SGI octane2 (IRIX64 v6.5).
>> >
>> >When I run "ccmake -v" from the bin directory it is installed in, I get the following error:
>> >
>> >---Begin Error Message
>> >
>> >Make Error: Could not find CMAKE_ROOT !!!
>> >                                          CMake has most likely not been installed correctly.
>> >             Modules directory not found in
>> >                                           lau/bin
>> >                                                                   Error running cmake::LoadCache().  Aborting.
>> >
>> >---End Error Message
>> >
>> >I googled this error message and came up with a solution involving setting the environment variable for CMAKE_ROOT, which I did using "setenv CMAKE_ROOT lau/CMake", but still came up with the same message. I am sure that the CMAKE_ROOT is pointing to the appropriate directory. 
>> >
>> >I probably should have consulted the mailing list at this point, but seeing that there were problems with the binaries, I attempted to compile cmake from the cvs repository.  This resulted in further problems involving linking between o32 and n32 objects.
>> >
>> >I'm just trying to get cmake running ASAP (precompiled or not), and I guess the first question to ask is: "How can I resolve this CMAKE_ROOT problem with the precompiled binaries?".  I'll worry about the cvs compilation issues later.
>> >
>> >Help is appreciated,
>> >
>> >Jon 
>> >
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