[CMake] ExternalProject_Add + issues with env & auto-conf.

[Tim St. Clair]

b4 I do this, because it's a non-trivial investment on a
non-heterogeneous build cluster, can you explain why the i386 stock
binaries behave differently?

Cheers,
Tim

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> Try the 2.8.3 release candidate.
>
> In 2.8.2 the untar did not preserve file times, and this could cause
> auto-make to rerun when it really did not need to.
>
> -Bill
>
>
> On 10/19/2010 3:21 PM, Tim St. Clair wrote:
>>
>> I've been able to consistently repro an issue using
>> ExternalProject_Add w/a configure build of cmake v.s. the i386
>> binaries online shows an issue whenever a it tries to call auto-conf
>> or auto-make as if the environment is hosed.  When I use the stock
>> i386 binaries I do not see this issue and I'm able to build external
>> projects.
>>
>> The test example in question is the following:
>>
>>
>> set (LIBXML2_VER libxml2-2.7.3 )
>>                ExternalProject_Add( libxml2
>>                                   DEPENDS zlib
>>                                    PREFIX
>> ${EXTERNAL_BUILD_PREFIX}/${LIBXML2_VER}
>>                                    #-- Download Step ----------
>>                                    DOWNLOAD_COMMAND wget -N
>> http://parrot.cs.wisc.edu/externals/${LIBXML2_VER}.tar.gz ${CMD_TERM}
>>                                    DOWNLOAD_DIR ${EXTERNAL_DL}
>>                                    URL
>> http://parrot.cs.wisc.edu/externals/${LIBXML2_VER}.tar.gz
>>                                    #--Configure step ----------
>>                                    CONFIGURE_COMMAND  ./configure
>> --prefix=${EXTERNAL_STAGE}
>> --disable-shared --with-zlib=${EXTERNAL_STAGE}
>>                                    #--Build Step ----------
>>                                    BUILD_COMMAND make
>>                                    BUILD_IN_SOURCE 1
>>                                    #--install Step ----------
>>                                    INSTALL_DIR ${EXTERNAL_STAGE}
>>                                    INSTALL_COMMAND make install )
>
>
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-- 
Cheers,
Timothy St. Clair