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On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Jom O'Fisher <jomofis...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an issue that's really difficult to track down because it only
> seems to repro on certain machines which don't have access to.
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> The sequence of events seems to be:
> (1) Invoke cmake to generate ninja project. Success.
> * Note that generated rules.ninja has .o compilation dependencies with
> absolute paths and .so link dependencies with relative paths.
> (2) Invoke "cmake --build my-path --target my-target"
> (3) CMake changes tries to change it's working directory here:
> https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/08ce62bee5bee6805fbb01c1821c43
> 8028e858dc/Source/cmGlobalGenerator.cxx#L1811
> (4) Evidence suggests this fails and is silently ignored here:
> https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/967ba2e18055943faabf6eec39703b
> cad95a7551/Source/cmWorkingDirectory.cxx#L10
> (5) CMake invokes ninja.exe to build.
> (6) Ninja eventually tries to link the resulting .so and this fails
> because the .so path is relative in rules.ninja and the output folder
> doesn't exist relative to the current directory.
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> A common theme of the machines this repros on seems to be that they run a
> non-US-English Windows. There has to be more to it though because I tried
> that myself and still didn't repro. A theory I had was that CMakeCache.txt
> is written in some encoding that loses information in the presence of
> Unicode characters. I tried this and it didn't seem to pan out.
>
> Mainly I'd like to see if anyone has ideas that would help me reproduce
> the issue and also whether you suspect it may be fixed in versions of CMake
> after 3.6.
>
> My tracking bug which has the full history: https://issuetracker.
> google.com/37131900
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> Thanks for your help
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