[Paraview] compiling paraview 1.4.2
Brad King
brad.king at kitware.com
Wed May 26 13:32:36 EDT 2004
Stanton, Eric T wrote:
> I checked out the latest ParaView distribution to my Sun Solaris computer.
> When I choose configure in cmake I get the error:
>
> "ParaView requires out of source build. Please create a separate binary
> directory and run CMake there."
>
> The thing is, I did all that. I have a directory paraview-1.4.2/ and another
> one paraview-1.4.2-build both in the same parent directory. I cd to paraview
> 1.4.2-build and run ccmake ../paraview-1.4.2.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
You probably tried an in-source build first, got the error message, and
then switched to an out-of-source build. Since there is a
CMakeCache.txt file left in the source tree, cmake thinks that is the
build tree. Re-extract the source tarball into a fresh source tree and
then try again.
-Brad
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