AW: [vtkusers] CMake and relative path names ?

[William A. Hoffman]

CMake supports out of source builds, so full paths are the default.
./vtkSpline.cxx only works for an in-source build.  It makes it much easier
to deal with paths, if we just full path all of them.   Also there is not
an easy discrimination between "system" and project paths in CMake while
it is running.   Although, it could be done, it would be of limited use
because most projects would not move any way.  So, it would be a sort
of half feature that sometimes worked, and documenting/ detecting the cases
where it would work would be hard and confusing.

-Bill


At 09:40 AM 10/6/2003, de Boer Ingo wrote:
>Hi Bill,
>
>> the new system may not have libraries and files in the same 
>> places as the original machine
>> that CMake was run on, and the projects would be invalid.
>I agree with you on the one with the system depending stuff,
>but how about the source files within the VTK
>directory? What is the problem about including
>".\vtkSpline.cxx" and not "C:\dir\dir\vtkSpline.cxx" ?
>The project file (also the unix makefile, I guess) is in 
>the Filtering-directory.
>
>greets
>  Ingo
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