[CMake] Strange search order of CMakeCache.txt

2010-03-05 Thread Marcel Loose
Hi all, I just spent an hour debugging a very strange phenomenon running CMake on Mac OS-X, which in the end turned out to be trivial, but completely unexpected for me. The problem was caused by the fact that CMake had accidentally been run once from the source directory. When running CMake in

Re: [CMake] Strange search order of CMakeCache.txt

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Wild
On 5. Mar, 2010, at 14:19 , Marcel Loose wrote: Hi all, I just spent an hour debugging a very strange phenomenon running CMake on Mac OS-X, which in the end turned out to be trivial, but completely unexpected for me. The problem was caused by the fact that CMake had accidentally been

Re: [CMake] Strange search order of CMakeCache.txt

2010-03-05 Thread Marcel Loose
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 14:27 +0100, Michael Wild wrote: On 5. Mar, 2010, at 14:19 , Marcel Loose wrote: Hi all, I just spent an hour debugging a very strange phenomenon running CMake on Mac OS-X, which in the end turned out to be trivial, but completely unexpected for me. The

Re: [CMake] Strange search order of CMakeCache.txt

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Hoffman
Marcel Loose wrote: I would definitely like to get a warning when CMake finds a cache file in what it thinks should be the source directory. It would have saved me an hour of debugging. OTOH, now that I know of this strange behaviour, I might be able to tackle these kinds of problems quicker.

Re: [CMake] Strange search order of CMakeCache.txt

2010-03-05 Thread kent williams
I recently had to help out a CMake newbie, who had run CMake in the source directory. Then he re-read the instructions on build setup for our programs, and did it the right way -- i.e. he configured a build directory for an out of source build. Problem is, if you run CMake and configure the

Re: [CMake] Strange search order of CMakeCache.txt

2010-03-05 Thread Eric Noulard
2010/3/5 kent williams nkwmailingli...@gmail.com: I recently had to help out a CMake newbie, who had run CMake in the source directory.  Then he re-read the instructions on build setup for our programs, and did it the right way -- i.e. he configured a build directory for an out of source