[CMake] Installing cmake-2.8.4-Darwin-universal.dmg

[Michael Jackson]

There was a bug where we were discussing keeping or ditching the version number that gets appended to the CMake.app package. There are good reasons both to keep it and to remove it. You may want to add your thoughts to the bug.

http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11693

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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net 
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio

On Feb 21, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Andrew Maclean wrote:

> Hi Sean,
> 
> Thanks for the link,
> 
> After reading the link below, I think I will write a little script to delete the symlinks and see if the install works, if not then I will write another script to create them.  
> 
> Alternatively after reading your second paragraph it may be better to rename the installation to /Applications/CMake.app and manually create the symlinks. The for future installations all I would need to do is to do the installation but DO NOT create the symlinks then rename the installation to CMake.app. I generally don't keep side by side versions of CMake.
> 
> With respect to PATH, I have noticed that in some cases the PATH is ignored in Macs but /usr/local/bin is not, hence the need for symlinks.
>  
> Thanks for the help.
>    Andrew
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:43:10 +1100, Andrew Maclean said:
> 
> >I am attempting to install this on Snow Leopard. The installation seems to
> >work Ok but fails at the Install Command Line Tools stage, with the message:
> >Failed create symlink installation may be incomplete: /usr/bin/ccmake
> >... and so forth for all the command line tools.
> >
> >Clearly this is a permissions issue. The installer actually does ask for my
> >password and the gui seems to be successfully installed in the Apps folder,
> >so I suspect sudo rights are not being propagated to the symlink creation
> >stage.
> 
> This has failed for as long as I can remember.  It might be this:
> <http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=10938>
> 
> >So how do I get the Command Lines stuff installed? (Aside from manually
> >creating them.)
> 
> What I do is add /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin to my PATH.  If
> you do this, you'll also need to remember to rename the installed CMake
> every time (to remove the version number):
> <http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11693>
> 
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> Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
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> Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
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