[CMake] CMake, Visual studio 2005 and long relative path

[Brad King]

Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2009/1/8 Julien Michel <julien.michel at c-s.fr>:
>> Dear CMake users and developpers,
>>
>> My project is using cmake and I am trying to build it on Visual Studio 2005.
>> The configuration process is successful, but when trying to compile, I have
>> a long bunch of fatal C1083 error :
>>
>> fatal error C1083: impossible to open source file:
>> '../../../../../../../../../../Path-to-the-source-file' no such file or
>> directory.
>>
>> But when manually testing, the file is where visual is looking for it.
>>
>> After some more testing, it appears that windows does not recognize files if
>> there are too many '../' in the path (even if the total path length does not
>> exceed 150 characters).
>>
>> Is this a known limitation of visual, or due to a cmake recent update ? I
> 
> Which CMake version are your using?
> Could you try with older CMake version?
> 
>> did not meet this problem before, and my project did not change that much
>> ...
>>
>> Any clue of what is going wrong ?
> 
> Do you use relative path with some "../.." path in your CMakeLists.txt?

Also, is the build tree underneath the source tree?

-Brad