[CMake] building cmake with special options

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri Mar 25 11:33:14 EST 2005


Doug Henry wrote:
> I need to specify my ncurses include/lib path when building cmake.  I
> didn't see a way to do this using the config script, so I tried -D's
> during bootstrap (make) and it complained that -D was an invalid
> option.  Is there a way for me to override the CURSES_INCLUDE_PATH and
> CURSES_LIBRARY when building cmake?

If you run "bootstrap --help" you will see an option called "--init=" 
that lets you specify a file containing CMake code to initialize 
variables.  Point it at a file containing

SET(CURSES_INCLUDE_PATH "/my/path" CACHE PATH "")
SET(CURSES_LIBRARY "/my/libncruses.a" CACHE PATH "")

-Brad


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