[CMake] Single Letter Omissions From File Path In Linker

[Bill Hoffman]

On 10/14/2016 10:04 AM, Randy Turner wrote:
> Hello! I've been running into a frustrating issue on and off for the
> past year. The project will build the source files correctly but when it
> comes to linking the executables, I always get the same error. The
> specific file varies, but the failure mode is always the same. For example:
>
> <Linking>
> "C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\<six digit temp file>", line
> xxx: error #10008-D: cannot find file
> "C:/Repos/operatingsystem/CMakeFiles/nvm_validate_ierator.dir/os/nvm/nvm_validate_iterator.c.obj"
>
> As you can see, the file path is missing a "t" in the first occurrence
> of the word "iterator" and so that file definitely does not exist. A
> file exists in the location with correct spelling, but somehow that
> hardcoded path in that temporary file has dropped a letter. The specific
> letter that gets dropped varies along with which file is allegedly
> missing. We noticed that requiring people to store the repository in
> their root directory greatly cut down on the occurrence of this issue
> but it is returning with more frequency as of late. Once it occurs once,
> CMake builds are never successful again and the only way that I have
> been able to completely clear the problem has been to reinstall Windows
> and set up the build environment again.
>
> Has anyone else seen this issue? Is there a way to change the directory
> for those linker files so that they're not in the Temp folder?
What generator are you using?  What version of CMake?

-Bill