[CMake] Bump -- CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX weirdness.

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri May 23 10:33:58 EDT 2008


kent williams wrote:
> There seems to be something unique about our build system that is
> causing this problem, and I am beginning to suspect what it is: It
> calls cmake to do a command-line configure even if the build directory
> is already configured.
> 
> This is kind of ridiculous to do, I know, but for one thing, the
> configure target in the Makefile depends on the Makefile itself, with
> the rationale that if you change the Makefile, then you're conceivably
> changing the flags passed in to CMake, so you should call CMake again
> to make sure.  For another, our gnu-make build system is 10+ years old
> and has turned into a giant ball of tangled barbed wire.
> 
> I think I can fix the problem by deleting the CMakeCache.txt file
> before the call to cmake.  But should I have to do this?
> 
Sounds like a bug.  Do you think you can create a small script that 
reproduces the problem?

-Bill



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