[CMake] TRY_RUN wrong program return value with --debug-compile

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Jun 3 22:55:25 EDT 2008


Eduardo Alberto Hernández Muñoz wrote:

> I understand that unpredictable results can come from running a cmake
> file with try_run more than once.
> 
> However I usually delete the contents of the binary directory, where
> the files are stored after try_run; after your reply, I also tried
> deleting the CMakeCache.txt and CMakeFiles/ directory in the source
> directory in addition to deleting the contents of the binary
> directory. The problem persists.
> 
> On the other hand, your advice on modifying the cache works well, so
> now I can go on with debugging. =] (dumb me, should have tried that).
> On the other hand, I'm not sure if I should fill a bug or not, since
> the problem happens even on the first try.

If you can create a small example that shows your problem please create 
a bug report.  I thought you were going to create a bug on 
--debug-trycompile not working.

-Bill


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