[CMake] cmake 2.6.4 bootstrap failure x86_64

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri Jun 19 12:38:41 EDT 2009


James Yoo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sure this question has been answered before, but I really did try to 
> find the answer via yabingle and was utterly unsuccessful... so let me 
> apologize in advance.
> 
> I've never used cmake before but I need to install it so that I can 
> install Mayavi via VTK.
> 

Do this:

1. Remove your build and source tree
2. Get a new copy of the source tree
3. Do an out of source build
    mkdir build
    cd build
    ../cmakesource/bootstrap --prefix=$MYINSTALLPREFIX
    make


There is an issue with bootstrapping more than once and in-source builds 
of cmake.

-Bill


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