[CMake] Build problem with cmake-2.6.2 on Centos 5.x system

[Andrew Sayman]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Bill Hoffman<bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> George R Goffe wrote:
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I just downloaded cmake 2.6.2 on one of my Centos systems and tried to
>> build it... I got the following msgs for my trouble. I see that the problem
>> was reported for the CVS version but I'm not sure I want to run what could
>> be a less than stable version on my production systems.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a work around or fix for this problem? Am I missing
>> something here?
>
> Something went wrong with the build.  I have not seen that problem before
> even in CVS.   You should look at this file:
>
> /tools/cmake/cmake-2.6.2/Bootstrap.cmk/cmake_bootstrap.log
>
> The problem is that cmSystemTools.cxx should not be using cmELF.cxx during
> bootstrap.   That symbol should only be required if CMAKE_USE_ELF_PARSER is
> defined, which it should not be during bootstrap.  One thing you could try
> is to figure out the command line used to compile cmSystemTools.cxx during
> bootstrap, and then change it to use g++ -E and look at the pre-processed
> file.  It should not have the elf stuff used.
>
> #if defined(CMAKE_USE_ELF_PARSER)
> # include "cmELF.h"
> #endif

This happens every time for me on Red Hat 5.3 if I run the configure
script on an already configured project.
-- 
Andrew Sayman
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