[CMake] problems configuring paraview

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sat Jul 18 09:29:04 EDT 2009


Natalie Happenhofer wrote:
> Hi!
> I have checked out the source code of ParaView and am trying to 
> configure it, but I always get the message:
> 
> "ParaView requires an out of source build. Please create a separate 
> binary directory and run CMake there. "
> 
> My source code  is in /home/natalie/ParaView3
> 
> then I created an empty directory in /home/natalie/ParaView3-build.
> 
> in ParaView3-build I typed: ccmake /home/natalie/ParaView3
> 
> and then this error came.
> 
> What is the problem here? I did create a different build - directory...
> 
Most likely there is a CMakeCache.txt in your source tree.   Do a cvs 
update on ParaView and remove all the files that have a ? before them 
and you should be good.

-Bill



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