[CMake] cmake CVS errors

Mike Jackson imikejackson at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 15:29:37 EST 2007


doh.. cmake 2.4.7 was on my path. I should have done:

bin/cmake --help-variable-list /tmp/variable.html

sorry for the noise
--  
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Dec 13, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> 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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