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On 24 December 2010 01:10, Robert Jonsson  wrote:

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> Hello Philipp,

>

> 2010/12/23 Philipp Überbacher

>> building:

>> you seem to have switched to cmake but half way it seems. The build

>> instructions are rather weird and unusual for cmake.

>> creating build, cd'ing there and invoking cmake .. is not how it's

>> usually done.

>> Usually you configure using 'ccmake .' when you build manually or

>> -DCMAKE_BLA (which you do use) for automatic building.

>> A DESTDIR is a good thing to have since often enough software

>> is build in a chroot and hence "make install" as root will fail if it

>> tries to install into the real /usr.

>

> I'm not convinced there is a usual way. Though you are right we are

> beginners with cmake and it can probably be improved.

> ccmake is just a curses frontend is it not? You can try to convince me but

> instinctively I think we should steer clear of gui tools for building.

The usual way:
cmake .
The clean way:
mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..
This is to keep the build separate and maintain a clean source directory.
ccmake is a convenience for us, as well as cmake-gui.
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