[CMake] Progress above 100% when making chicken-2.6

[Brandon Van Every]

On 6/28/07, Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>
> CMake can get above 100% (or other screwy situations) in a couple odd cases,
> such as killing an install done as root half way through, and then doing a
>> build as non-root. Basically it uses some files for tracking progress and if
> they get written by root and left there (like in an aborted install) then
> the user account cannot clean them out. Another case is if you do two builds
> in the same tree from different processes  (not a parallel build using -j 2,
> but two different make invocations in the same tree) This can also happen if
> you invoke a "make" in the tree as part of a custom rule within the build.
> e.g. you do a recusrive make on your own as part of a custom rule.  They are
> odd cases but they could happen. I'll try adding some more error checking
> for those cases at some point.
>
>
> But more specifically for your case, what target are you making?  The all
> target from the top level?

Yep.

> Is there a /CMakeFIles/Progress directory still lying around?

Yes there is.  It has only 1 line: CMAKE_ALL_PROGRESS = 72.  I'll try
rebuilding from scratch and seeing what happens.

> Are you running just one make?

Just one.

> Does chicken do a recusrise
> make/build as part of a custom command (e.g. invoke make directly as part of
> a custom command?)

No recursive make.  Some "cmake -P" scripts are invoked though.

Another weird thing I do is reuse object files from a previous build
step, so that I don't have to include the same underlying library 6
times.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every