FindAutomoc4 doesn't find automoc when installing in different dir

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Fri Jul 18 00:06:44 CEST 2008


On Saturday 12 July 2008, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 12 July 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > for some test-project I just executed cmake as "cmake .." in
> > <project>/build. The CMakeLists.txt contains a find_package(KDE4), but
> > this fails because automoc4 isn't found.
> >
> > As far as I can see FindAutomoc4 makes it impossible to install automoc4
> > into a different prefix than any package that depends on it
>
> Wrong, I do that, and I set
>  -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:PATH=/d/kde/inst/kdesupport_trunk
> when calling cmake 1.6.
>
> See previous post from me about this here, where I was told about this
> option (and equivalent options for cmake 1.4)
>
> I do agree that it's a bit annoying that one has to pass this every time,
> but well, how could cmake guess where it is? I guess an alternative would
> be an env var, 

CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH is also an environment variable, I would suggest setting 
this to your usual custom install dirs.

Alex


More information about the Kde-buildsystem mailing list