[CMake] Progress report strange behaviour with mixed file permissions

[David Cole]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A friend of mine has asked me to confirm if there may be a bug in CMake
> related to file permissions on Unix. Here is the story:
>
> There are some files under CMakeFiles/ directory owned by "root"
> and not overridable by "strk" (non-root user).
>
> Having such setup results in a pretty funny behaviour:
> you do can run "make" but the progress widget always
> reports the same percentage. I was at 83% from start
> to finish. Pretty puzzling :)
>
> The above was with cmake version 2.8.1.
>
> Could any one point where is the problem?
> CMake misuse or bug indeed?
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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Sounds to me like somebody ran cmake as root, and then ran it again as
non-root... Choose non-root and be consistent. There's absolutely no
reason to run cmake as root, ever.

I don't think there's a CMake bug here, but if you can come up with
steps to reproduce the problem without running CMake as root, then
we'll investigate further.


HTH,
David