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

[Tim St. Clair]

2.8.0 vs. 2.8.2 hand made

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:24 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> What version are these stock i386 binaries you speak of?
> Where did they come from?
> For 2.8.1 and earlier the problem did not exist.
> For 2.8.2, the problem did exist.
> It should be fixed again in 2.8.3-rc2 and later.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Tim St. Clair <timothysc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>> Timothy St. Clair
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Cheers,
Timothy St. Clair