I always compile CMake on Linux but never meet any issues, please make sure you had installed a complete working Linux development environment, with g++, libstdc++-devel etc.
The only special thing is just about enabling GUI with Qt, but that's so easy, just install the Qt development libraries though apt-get or yum, then input the parameter from configure, that's all. On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Eric Noulard <eric.noul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi xen, > > Sorry to hear you lost so much time. > Could you provide us with the version of your system and compiler? > Did you try any source of precompiled version of CMake either from > cmake.org or from your favorite system repo? If no why? > Average CMake user don't ever compile CMake itself. > > > > Le 9 juin 2017 09:46, "Xen" <l...@xenhideout.nl> a écrit : > > I just want to tell you what terrible software CMake is. > > The newest version won't compile on my system. The bootstrapping just > won't complete. > > It hangs on 100% CPU while trying to link cmake. Maybe that is a deficit > of this system. > > I take an older version but it needs ncurses. I have ncurses on the system > but not the headers. > > The ncurses source package likes to install headers in a ncurses > subdirectory. Fine. > > But Cmake can't find it. > > I specify --prefix=/opt/local. > > The headers are in /opt/local/include/ncurses. > > At first I find a reference to CURSES_INCLUDE_PATH but setting it as an > environment variable doesn't do a thing. > > There is no help that I can find in the directory structure. > > The bootstrap command does not have any help builtin. > > I add CURSES_INCLUDE_PATH to Modules/FindCurse.cmake and it finds the > header but now offset from /ncurses. This causes the header file itself to > not find its other header files. > > The only directory it needs for that is /opt/local/include. > > I try to add CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH on the command line. > I try to add CMAKE_C_FLAGS on the command line. > > But the build system does not tell me what it's doing. > > So I am just endlessly waiting several minutes before it errors out again > and I still don't know why or what would have helped, because it does not > show me any command lines or directories it has seen fit to use. > > This goes on for hours. > > This is the first time I have come into contact with Cmake and apparently > you need to be able to use CMake as a programmer for your own projects, > before you can get started with cmake. > > Then again it errs out: > > /store/dev/cmake/Source/CursesDialog/form/form.h:40:20: error: curses.h: > No such file or directory > > Oh, I added a colon as path separator and now it doesn't do anything > anymore. > > So my mistake was to add ncurses at the end of the path but it's not like > it should have failed using CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH or CMAKE_C_FLAGS. > > Or even that it should not look in that location by default based on > --prefix. > > At first I couldn't compile ncurses; apparently a bug in the system. I > supplied the fix in CFLAGS but the Makefile of course did not pass it on to > the file for which it mattered, so I had to even repeat that manually. > > Luckily GNU make shows you the command line. > > It took me 3 hours to compile version 2.4.0. The latest release candidate > had been working all night and not proceeding. > > Then when I am finally done, it tells me it needs a newer version... > > Of course, it doesn't say so in the README.rst... > > I wish this endless waste of time would end. > -- > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more > information on each offering, please visit: > > CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html > CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html > CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensou > rce/opensource.html > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake > > > > -- > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more > information on each offering, please visit: > > CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html > CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html > CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/ > opensource/opensource.html > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake >
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