[cmake-developers] Why BUILD_DOCUMENTATION=ON requires VTK

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Mar 24 17:08:28 EDT 2011


On 03/24/2011 04:37 PM, Nicolas Desprès wrote:
> Just a little question.  In Utilities/Doxygen/CMakeLists.txt,
> FindVTK.cmake is included if BUILD_DOCUMENTATION is on.  I don't have
> VTK installed so it keeps complaining because it cannot find it.  But
> I need the Doxygen documentation to browse the code.  I don't
> understand why building the Doxygen documentation of CMake require
> VTK.
> 
> I know it is a minor issue, but I am just curious.

Wow, I totally forgot about that option.  I don't think anyone has
maintained it in years.  I think you can just take out the line
that includes FindVTK.  It looks historical to me.

-Brad



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