[CMake] Progress report strange behaviour with mixed file permissions
Hi, A friend of mine has asked me to confirm if there may be a bug in CMake related to file permissions on Unix. Here is the story: There are some files under CMakeFiles/ directory owned by root and not overridable by strk (non-root user). Having such setup results in a pretty funny behaviour: you do can run make but the progress widget always reports the same percentage. I was at 83% from start to finish. Pretty puzzling :) The above was with cmake version 2.8.1. Could any one point where is the problem? CMake misuse or bug indeed? Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net -- 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
Re: [CMake] Progress report strange behaviour with mixed file permissions
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net wrote: Hi, A friend of mine has asked me to confirm if there may be a bug in CMake related to file permissions on Unix. Here is the story: There are some files under CMakeFiles/ directory owned by root and not overridable by strk (non-root user). Having such setup results in a pretty funny behaviour: you do can run make but the progress widget always reports the same percentage. I was at 83% from start to finish. Pretty puzzling :) The above was with cmake version 2.8.1. Could any one point where is the problem? CMake misuse or bug indeed? Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net -- 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 Sounds to me like somebody ran cmake as root, and then ran it again as non-root... Choose non-root and be consistent. There's absolutely no reason to run cmake as root, ever. I don't think there's a CMake bug here, but if you can come up with steps to reproduce the problem without running CMake as root, then we'll investigate further. HTH, David -- 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
Re: [CMake] Progress report strange behaviour with mixed file permissions
On 13 January 2012 11:30, David Cole david.c...@kitware.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net wrote: A friend of mine has asked me to confirm if there may be a bug in CMake related to file permissions on Unix. Here is the story: There are some files under CMakeFiles/ directory owned by root and not overridable by strk (non-root user). Having such setup results in a pretty funny behaviour: you do can run make but the progress widget always reports the same percentage. I was at 83% from start to finish. Pretty puzzling :) The above was with cmake version 2.8.1. Could any one point where is the problem? CMake misuse or bug indeed? Sounds to me like somebody ran cmake as root, and then ran it again as non-root... Choose non-root and be consistent. There's absolutely no reason to run cmake as root, ever. I don't think there's a CMake bug here, but if you can come up with steps to reproduce the problem without running CMake as root, then we'll investigate further. David Daniel, thanks! I'll confirm with my friend and follow-up if needed. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net -- 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
Re: [CMake] Progress report strange behaviour with mixed file permissions
On 1/13/2012 6:41 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: David Daniel, thanks! I'll confirm with my friend and follow-up if needed. Best regards, My guess would be that someone did a sudo make install. That would be a reason why you might run make a root. But, you have to be consistent and always use the same user for the same build tree. -Bill -- 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
