cmake v2.8.10.2 fails on windows xp service pack 3

[DeveloperChris]

Thanks Thomas


On 27/04/2013 5:04 PM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 27 April 2013 16:24:49 DeveloperChris wrote:
>> On 27/04/2013 3:58 PM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
>>> I installed cmake 2.8.11-rc1 (available via emerge, but not the default
>>> target), which works on my WinXP.
>>
>> I can't find that. Its not in the current cmake-2.8.4.2011622.py
>> Just checked through the git log history and it was removed
>
> oh, indeed, I remembered it wrong. Now I see, I had locally cherry-picked that
> back in.
>
>
>> Sadly when I try and build mpir (for kmymoney) it just hangs when I use long
>> paths. I have not been able to resolve the issue so I need short paths.
>>
>> Nothing in the logs, even when logging set to 3
>
> Not sure if this relates at all, but on my (virtual) machine, the kdelibs
> build was going extremely slow. I found that if I set "EMERGE_MAKE_PROGRAM" to
> mingw32-make instead of jom, it came back to speed. I wrote it off to some
> obscure multi-core issue in virtualbox, but conceivably it had an entirely
> different cause.

I'll try this. you never know.

>
> In either way, when the logs don't tell you anything: CD to the build
> directory (assuming it has been created), and run mingw32-make, manually,
> there. (I tried to document some debugging tricks I discovered by trial and
> error, here:
>    http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Development_Workflow
> )
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>

Thanks for the development workflow link and your effort putting it 
together. Of particular interest was how to get your own patches applied. I 
had found it frustrating to have patches overwritten.

Chris