On Monday 25 May 2009, Jed Brown wrote: > Bill Hoffman wrote: > > You can also set QMake on the cmake command line as well: > > > > cmake -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE=/path/to/qmake ../source > > Yeah, I'm much less concerned with this particular case as with the > philosophy that the correct way to select installations is by modifying > PATH. Frustratingly, a new user will fire up cmake and get the wrong > version (they're not even aware of exactly what the dependencies are, > let alone the naming convention for the cache variable that will get the > correct version). So they interactively change a couple paths and > reconfigure. Lo and behold, they now have an inconsistent state because > the cache wasn't flushed when they changed QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE (I don't > know if this is the case with Qt, but is is with most packages). ... > Using PATH and falling back on peculiarly named variables (hopefully > only one non-advanced variable per package, so that it's unambiguous)
With the new cmake-gui this is now much easier :-) Also, instead of setting PATH to /opt/qt-a.b.c/bin/ you can also set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to /opt/qt-a.b.c/, also to a list of directories, which cmake will search in the order you specified. Alex _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
