[Cmake] cmake newbie questions

[Ken Martin]

A quick response to your first question, try the MESSAGE command

MESSAGE("I am here and variable FOO is set to ${FOO}")

Should do the job

- Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmake-admin at public.kitware.com [mailto:cmake-
> admin at public.kitware.com] On Behalf Of Edward Zdankiewicz
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:55 PM
> To: cmake at public.kitware.com
> Subject: [Cmake] cmake newbie questions
> 
> To the cmake mailing list
> When adding a layer to an already complicated tool chain (a c/c++
build
> system) in an open source project that will always be suffering in the
> documentation department you need to provide a simple print or echo
> feature
> to the cmake tool. A way to echo 'I am here's or dump the contents of
a
> variable would be extremely useful.
> 
> my specific difficulty is in finding the glut package. GLUT_FOUND
passes
> the
> if test but the /I statement in the makefiles does not have an entry
for
> the
> gl stuff. I do get /I statements for the xerces and bugly2: If I
manually
> add /usr/include/GL to the include directories statement and remove
the
> ${GLUT_INCLUDE_PATH} the makefiles will work.
> INCLUDE (${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/FindGLUT.cmake)
> 
> IF (GLUT_FOUND)
> 
> INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(/usr/include/xercesc ${GLUT_INCLUDE_PATH}
> /usr/include/bugly2)
> 
> ELSE (GLUT_FOUND)
> 
> INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(/usr/include/bugly)
> 
> ENDIF(GLUT_FOUND)
> 
> 
> also:
> How does one force a line into a makefile? I would love to add a
simple
> line
> like:
> VPATH = linux_objs
> into the make files and setting things in the cache doesn't do it, and
> using
> SET in the cmakelist.txt doesn't do it. I want to be able to mimic the
> Visual studio approach of subdirectories for the object files, to make
the
> task of packing up source distributions easier.
> 
> How does one control builds on linux with the debug options? I see in
the
> cache where -g is defined as a CMAKE_ debug flag, but I do not see a
-g
> option anywhere in the resulting makefiles so I am not sure how to
turn
> this
> on or off. Where does this show up?
> 
> 
> Thank you for any help on this.
> 
> 
> Edward Zdankiewicz
> bzdank at sprynet.com
> 
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