[CMake] cmake CVS errors

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu Dec 13 15:09:23 EST 2007


Mike Jackson wrote:
> Not sure if this is know but using today's cvs I tried the following:
> 
> 504:[mjackson at thor:bin]$ cmake --help-Variable-list /tmp/out.txt
> CMake Error: The source directory "/tmp/out.txt" does not exist.
> Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
> 
> Bug?
> 
> Also, there is a slight inconsistency in the naming of the 'variable' 
> argument:
> 
>   --help-variable var [file]  = Print help for a single variable and exit.
>   --help-Variable-list [file] = List documented variables and exit.
>   --help-variables [file]     = Print help for all variables and exit.
> 
> Note the capital 'V' in the second line.
> 

There is a bug in that help, the lowercase V works fine, so 
--help-variable-list.

-Bill


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