[CMake] Strange search order of CMakeCache.txt

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri Mar 5 09:24:37 EST 2010


Marcel Loose wrote:

> I would definitely like to get a warning when CMake finds a cache file
> in what it thinks should be the source directory. It would have saved me
> an hour of debugging. OTOH, now that I know of this "strange" behaviour,
> I might be able to tackle these kinds of problems quicker.
> 

It does say where the build files were written as the last message that 
is printed out....


cmake ../src
...
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/hoffman/My Builds/src

If that is what they wanted (an in source build), CMake can not warn 
about it.


-Bill



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