If you run cmake with "--debug-trycompile", it will leave the droppings you're looking for.
>From cmake --help: --debug-trycompile = Do not delete the try compile directories. HTH, David On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Phil Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Those who have had my dumb questions inflicted on them in the past will > recall that I'm using CMake with a cross-compiler (Dignus) for IBM System z > (mainframes). > > We recently added a new developer, and in setting her up, we had problems > with: > -- Check size of unsigned long long - failed > (and all the other "-- Check size of ..."). > > These fail quietly, with no compile errors. Past experience suggests that > this is due to the regex not finding the magic string in the compiler > output. > > After some tinkering, my user backed off to CMake 2.6, and now it works. > > I'm running 2.8.0 without problems; it looks like the process for doing the > "check size" stuff changed in 2.8.1. > > One thing that was a huge impediment to figuring this out before was that > the object created by the "check size" process seems to get deleted even if > the process fails. That seems wrong: shouldn't it leave the droppings for > diagnosis if it fails? > > Anyway, any hints about what this change means in terms of how it processes > stuff, and where to look to figure out the issue? Fortunately I have a > sacrificial machine that I can test on. > -- > ...phsiii > > Phil Smith III > [email protected] > Voltage Security, Inc. > www.voltage.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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