On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 14:09 +0100, Craig Bradney wrote: > >> 7. $ cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/scribus1.3.9 > -DWANT_CAIRO=1 > > I get the following error: > > > > CMake Error: The source directory "/scribus-1.3.9" does not appear > to > > contain CMakeLists.txt. > > Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI. > > > > So I moved to the top level directory /scribus-1.3.9 and tried the > same > > command. > > Same error. > > Try putting the . at the end: > > cmake -DWANT_CAIRO=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/scribus1.3.9 .
This worked. I now appear to have a working install of 1.3.9 > A better suggestion would be to have a build directory, then your > build files wont end up in the tarball's extracted files. > > mkdir /home/username/Downloads/scribus-1.3.9-build > cd /home/username/Downloads/scribus-1.3.9-build > cmake -DWANT_CAIRO=1 > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/scribus1.3.9 > /home/username/Downloads/scribus-1.3.9 > make install I didn't do this. What difference would it have made? -- Gerard Cunningham Journalist (086) 607 3060 Kildare, Co Kildare
