[CMake] adding program suffix

[Michael Wild]

Looking at the sources, it seems that you also need to set
GMX_DEFAULT_SUFFIX to FALSE in order for this to work.

Michael


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chandan Choudhury <iitdckc at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Micheal, Yngve Decker and Eric
>
> Thank for remarks.
>
> Micheal you are right that I want to append a suffix to every executable
> being installed.
> I already have an earlier version of gromacs installed, the suffix would
> help me to distinguish the between the two.
>
> While looking out for the string "SUFFIX" in the CMakeCache.txt, I
> encountered a phrase as
>
> //Suffix for GROMACS binaries (default: _d for double, _mpi for
> // MPI, _mpi_d for MPI and double).
> GMX_BINARY_SUFFIX:STRING=
>
> What I can understand is if I use the following command it might serve the
> purpose.
>
> CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/soft/sudip/abc/apps/fftw-3.3.3 *GMX_BINARY_SUFFIX=_472*CC=icc cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/soft/sudip/abc/apps/gromacs/461
> -DCMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX=_461 && make -j 12 && make install
>
> Chandan
>
>
>
> --
> Chandan kumar Choudhury
> NCL, Pune
> INDIA
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Yngve Inntjore Levinsen <
> yngve.levinsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 11/03/13 09:24, Eric Noulard wrote:
>> > I think Chandan meant "globally" for all executables.
>> >
>> > That's the purpose of CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX
>> > as already pointed  out by Michael.
>> >
>> > see : cmake --help-variable "CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX"
>> >
>> > Now it doesn't seems to work for Chandan.
>> >
>> > I guess the variable is forcibly written by "CMakeGenericSystem.cmake"
>> > during early CMake startup.
>> > So that you cannot overwrite its value on the command line.
>> > try to add "variable_watch(CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX)" at the very top
>> > of main CMakeLists.txt
>> >
>> > You may try to do that from within the CMakeLists.txt after the
>> > "project(...)" statement (or enable_language)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes I tried to set the same variable on my machine but does not work
>> here neither (Linux). Perhaps this only works for platforms where this
>> variable is traditionally non-empty?
>>
>> As also Michael pointed out, this would not really be a solution for
>> non-developers of a software for sure (and I now see Chandan said it was
>> a question regarding usage).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Yngve
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