[CMake] Hard to find the sources of cmake

Pau Garcia i Quiles pgquiles at elpauer.org
Sun Jul 15 11:10:49 EDT 2007


Quoting Manuel Yguel <Manuel.Yguel at inrialpes.fr>:

Are you kidding? Look at the end of the filelist: "Windows linefeed  
source" and "Unix linefeed source".

> Hello,
> I did go to the cmake website: http://www.cmake.org/
> I did pick up what seems to be the cmake sources for me on the page
> http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html
> I downloaded the file cmake-2.4.6-Linux-i386.tar.gz
>
> But when I extracted the tarball I get three directories:
> bin, doc and share with a lot of things inside but no bootstrap executable
> file.
>
>
> Googleing a bit I found the following post:
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2007-April/090436.html that
> point towards a file not directly visible from the download page:
> http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.4/cmake-2.4.6.tar.gz
>
> Then using this file I could successfully install cmake from the sources
> following the install webpage instructions.
>
> The download and the install pages of the cmake website seem not to be
> synchronized.
> I really didn't know what to do with the files extracted with the linux
> archive.
>
> So please update the documentation or explain me when I read wrong your
> guidelines.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Manuel
>
>
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