[Paraview] ParaView Superbuild - changing default Paraciew cmake option

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Simon,

I am joining a little late to this conversation -- is this addressed yet?

Utkarsh

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Su, Simon M CTR USARMY ARL (US)
<simon.m.su.ctr at mail.mil> wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Unfortunately, when I checked the CMakeCache.txt in the directory paraview/src/paraview-build after the cmake ran, I am still finding
>
> //Request building vtkIOXdmf3
> Module_vtkIOXdmf3:BOOL=OFF
>
> and Boost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE is none existence in the  CMakeCache.txt
>
> I even tried both
> -DPV_EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS:STRING="-DModule_vtkIOXdmf3:BOOL=ON -DBoost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE:BOOL=ON"
> and
> -DPV_EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS:STRING="Module_vtkIOXdmf3:BOOL=ON Boost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE:BOOL=ON"
>
> thoughts?
>
> thanks
> -simon
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Ben Boeckel [ben.boeckel at kitware.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 11:43 AM
> To: Su, Simon M CTR USARMY ARL (US)
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] ParaView Superbuild - changing default Paraciew cmake option
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 15:15:59 +0000, Su, Simon M CTR USARMY ARL (US) wrote:
>> I ran cmake with
>>
>> -DPV_EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS:STRING="-DModule_vtkIOXdmf3:BOOL=ON -DBoost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE:BOOL=ON"
>>
>> and check it with ccmake. Looks like -DModule_vtkIOXdmf3:BOOL=ON
>> -DBoost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE:BOOL=ON made it into the variable
>> PV_EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS
>>
>> It appears :STRING does the trick.
>
> Yep. This is a CMake parsing bug; the regular expression for this is too
> greedy (it allows '=' in the variable name). Compare:
>
>> -DPV_EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS=-DModule_vtkIOXdmf3:BOOL=ON -DBoost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE:BOOL=ON
>     |-------------------------------------| |--| |-------------------------------|
>                 variable                    type            value
>
> versus:
>
>> -DPV_EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS:STRING=-DModule_vtkIOXdmf3:BOOL=ON -DBoost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE:BOOL=ON
>     |-----------------| |----| |--------------------------------------------------------|
>           variable       type                        value
>
> this works:
>
>> -DSOME_PATH=C:/path/to/file
>     |-------| |-------------|
>     variable       value
>
> because paths with '=' are very rare:
>
>> -DSOME_PATH=C:/path/to/file/with/=/sign
>     |---------| |-----------------| |---|
>       variable         type         value
>
> --Ben
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