[CMake] ExternalProject_Add not honoring the INSTALL_DIR argument.

[Michael Jackson]

So that was a typo on my part but changing it had no effect after 
deleting every build/download/tmp/stamp directory and trying again.

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Michael A. Jackson
BlueQuartz Software, LLC
[e]: mike.jackson at bluequartz.net


Nicholas Braden wrote:
> Have you tried changing the = to a space, as with the other parameters?
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Michael Jackson
> <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>  wrote:
>> I have the following CMake file:
>>
>> set(QHull_GIT_REPO "git://github.com/qhull/qhull")
>> set(QHull_GIT_TAG "")
>> set(QHull_INSTALL_NAME "qhull")
>> set(QHull_INSTALL_NAME "qhull-2015.2")
>>
>>
>> ExternalProject_Add(${QHull_INSTALL_NAME}
>>    PREFIX ${Fusion_SDK_ROOT}
>>    URL "http://www.qhull.org/download/qhull-2015-src-7.2.0.tgz"
>>    INSTALL_DIR=/tmp/Fusion/qhull-2015.2
>>      LOG_DOWNLOAD 1
>>      LOG_UPDATE 1
>>      LOG_CONFIGURE 1
>>      LOG_BUILD 1
>>      LOG_INSTALL 1
>>
>> )
>>
>>   and when I invoke the initial cmake with this:
>>
>>   cmake -G Ninja -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
>> -DFusion_SDK_ROOT=/tmp/Fusion_SDK ../
>>
>> I get a valid "configure" step. Then I run "ninja" and I get errors on
>> installation. The errors are because CMake is attempting to install QHull in
>> /usr/local/lib.
>>
>> Why is that? I am not sure what I am doing wrong as this seems like a pretty
>> trivial case. I have cmake 3.5.1 and read the docs at
>> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/module/ExternalProject.html but somehow
>> cmake is messing up.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael A. Jackson
>> BlueQuartz Software, LLC
>> [e]: mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
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