[CMake] execute_process command problem

[Ajay Divekar]

What that does is it outputs make clean command's output on standard
output. On the other hand if I cd and then execute make clean command
then it does not output anything to the standard output.

Regards,

Ajay Divekar

On 9/17/07, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> Ajay Divekar wrote:
> > I have some problem executing the execute_process command of cmake on
> > fedora 6 and 7 whereas the same command works fine in FreeBSD 6.2.
> >
> > The command that i have is as follows
> >
> > EXECUTE_PROCESS( COMMAND cd $ENV{PP_ROOTDIR}/src
> >                  COMMAND make clean RESULT_VARIABLE ret_var)
> >
> > IF(NOT "${ret_var}" STREQUAL 0)
> >   MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "Unable to execute make clean command on the
> > source dir. Error -> ${ret_var}")
> > ENDIF(NOT "${ret_var}" STREQUAL 0)
> >
> > The error that is generated is as follows
> >
> > "Unable to execute make clean command on the source dir. Error -> No
> > such file or directory."
> >
> > I have tried this over and over but this command never works on Fedora.
> >
> What about:
> execute_process(WORKING_DIRECTORY $ENV{PP_ROOTDIR}/src
>                            COMMAND make clean RESULT_VARIABLE ret_var)
>
> -Bill
>
>