-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Orion Poplawski wrote: > Various projects using cmake state that they don't support in source > tree builds. Is this a general case for cmake projects? > > We're working on packaging guidelines for cmake projects in Fedora. > Draft is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/cmake. > Currently this does an in source tree build. > > I currently do: > > mkdir fedora > pushd fedora > cmake ..
this is out source build because CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR and CMAKE_BINARY_DIR are not the same > In which the build directory is a subdirectory of the source tree. I've > also seen recommendations for a parallel directory, e.g.: > > cmake ../source > > Is this preferred over the former? this depends on what you are trying to do, but for packing both should be fine. > What are the issues that arise? In general with RPM packaging you are > starting with a clean freshly unpacked source tree. > > Thanks! > the best practice is to always use out source builds because it's what most of us do and it's cleaner. in my own projects i have two directories, one ~/projects with the source code and the other ~/build with the compiled code. with this layout i could have ~/build/foo/debug ~/build/foo/release ~/build/foo/debug-icc. i can remove the ~/build dir to free disk space. - --- filipe sousa -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF+GyybQdNYqwwwCwRAtZTAKCz4+tUO8q9dk11/WVmNGQI1V0A1ACfSoCt aJ5bdf8GzkLfgZ7pVbtonI0= =y8Ah -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
