[CMake] Error adding rule using 2.4.1 beta

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu May 11 17:02:46 EDT 2006


Reggie Burnett wrote:
> Brad King wrote:
> 
>> Reggie Burnett wrote:
>>
>>> I've discovered the problem.  the cmakelists.txt files, as they sit 
>>> on my system, have lowercase names.  When I change them to mixed case 
>>> (CMakeLists.txt), they work.  Given that Windows is not case 
>>> sensitive, this is baffling.  I have had SFU installed on this system 
>>> and it did prompt during install if I wanted to make a system change 
>>> allowing for case sensitivity but now I can't find any info on 
>>> turning that off.  Any ideas?
>>
>> Windows filesystems are case-insensitive but CMake's internal tables 
>> that track files called "CMakeLists.txt" are case-sensitive.
> 
> Perhaps that's something that should be rethought?

The files must be called "CMakeLists.txt" and nothing else.  On case 
sensitive file systems it makes a big difference.

-Brad


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