superbuild: weird cmake error

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Wed Nov 30 07:33:12 UTC 2011


On 29.11.11 21:41:23, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2011, Valentin Rusu wrote:
> > On 11/29/2011 07:34 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > It's the "--trace" in the command. I don't know how you got that in
> > > there.
> > 
> > Oh, sorry, my fault! I forgot I manually edited the Makefile to add
> > --trace to cmake command.
> > 
> > > If you copy that command just to the command line
> > > ("/usr/local/bin/cmake -- trace -E cmake_progress_start
> > > /home/kde/src/superbuild/kdesupport/build/CMakeFiles
> > > /home/kde/src/superbuild/kdesupport/build/CMakeFiles/progress.marks"),
> > > you'll get the error you see below, if you remove the --trace, it
> > > works. Alex
> > 
> > Well, it won't work on my system :
> > 
> > [valentin at z build]$ cmake -E cmake_progress_start
> 
> You forgot the two following arguments:

Even so, its bad that cmake -E does not list the cmake_progress_start
command. That confuses users apparently. Even if its considered an
internal thing it could be listed under an "Internal Commands:" section

Andreas



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