For now, another workaround would be to write a script that calls patch with
the -i argument and then invoke the script with execute_process or a
different cmake -E command line...
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Hugh Sorby <h.so...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Thanks Alan,
>
> I will attempt to:
>
> 1) search the CMake bug tracker (not very good at this most never seem to
> find anything relevant)
> 2) add new bug if 1) fails to bear any fruit.
>
> Unfortunately the
>
>
> cmake -E chdir netgen patch -p0 < netgen-4.9.11.patch
>
> doesn't work so well on Windows Vista which is why I was trying to use the
> -i option.
>
>
>
> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>> On 2009-11-25 11:00+1200 Hugh Sorby wrote:
>>
>> Sorry about that missed a chdir should be
>>>
>>> cmake -E chdir netgen patch -p0 -i netgen-4.9.11.patch
>>>
>>
>> I confirm that you have found a bug (at least with Debian stable Linux and
>> a
>> bootstrapped cmake version 2.8.0-rc6). Here is a simple demonstration
>> with "ls -i".
>>
>> softw...@raven> ls -i config.h
>> 4539478 config.h
>>
>> softw...@raven> cmake -E chdir . ls -i config.h
>> config.h
>>
>> In other words the ls -i option is consumed by CMake just like the patch
>> -i
>> option is consumed for you. Note that -i is an
>> option for CMake itself (wizard mode) so there is probably some screwup
>> in interpretation of the command line when cmake -E is being run.
>> If I change the flag from -i to -l, then the flag is not consumed and
>> you get the same results for
>>
>> "ls -l config.h" and "cmake -E chdir . ls -l config.h". That's consistent
>> with the idea that you will only have trouble with cmake consuming the
>> option when it is an option it recognizes. ("-l" is not a cmake command
>> option while "-i" is).
>>
>> I also confirm the bug occurs for cmake-2.6.0 (the Debian stable system
>> version) which makes it a bug that has been around for quite a while. I
>> suggest you go ahead and put it in the bugtracker (if you cannot find
>> another report about the same issue there).
>>
>> Until this cmake -E option consuming bug is fixed I suggest you could
>> avoid
>> the -i option with patch by using, e.g.,
>>
>> cmake -E chdir netgen patch -p0 <netgen-4.9.11.patch
>>
>> Alan
>> __________________________
>> Alan W. Irwin
>>
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>> Astronomy,
>> University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
>>
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>> software
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>> of
>> Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
>> (lbproject.sf.net).
>> __________________________
>>
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>> __________________________
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