[CMake] is ccmake reliable?

[James C. Sutherland]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 12:50 PM, David Cole wrote:

> I believe the word used was "reproducible" not "reliable" -- and I  
> think he was talking about the fact that it is not reproducible  
> because it depends on human interaction. Other than the human  
> sitting at the keyboard, I have found ccmake (and *all* of the cmake  
> executables) to be quite reliable.
>
> The thing that is confusing you about the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX value  
> is something that it takes everyone a while to get their heads  
> around... The *cached* value (that you see in the GUI) is not the  
> same as the local variable value in the CMakeLists.txt file. When  
> you use set(var "value") in a CMakeLists.txt file using a variable  
> name that is also in the cache, you are only affecting the local  
> value in the CMakeLists.txt file, not the cache value.
>
> And when you print it out (and when CMake generates make files) it  
> is the local value that matters, not the cached value that you see  
> in the GUI.
>
> Once you get your head around that concept, I think you'll find  
> ccmake is quite reliable. :-)
>

Thanks, that does help.  And you are right that the word was  
"reproducible" and not "reliable."