Re: cmake error

[Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com>]

Hi Thiago,

Thanks very much for your help. At least you have confirmed my take on guix's cmake !

Perhaps someone else will come along with some insight. The cmake patch makers for instance ...

I'll keep trying with the log file ...

Cheers
Roy


On 13 May 2021 19:09:58 BST, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com> wrote:
>Hello Roy,
>
>Em quinta-feira, 13 de maio de 2021, às 14:17:21 -03, Roy Lemmon escreveu:
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> Just to not that the original CMakeList.txt file for fastjet uses
>> ExternalProject_Add with the URL command. Perhaps no-one has used cmake
>> in Guix with that option before ...
>
>That's a good possibility. I tried your CMakeLists.txt example with cmake 
>installed via Guix and I saw the same error. With my host distro's cmake it 
>works fine.
>
>So it appears that file(DOWNLOAD) is broken in Guix's cmake. Perhaps no one 
>noticed because when building guix packages, dependencies are download in 
>advance rather than as part of the build.
>
>> Still no solution ...
>
>Sorry, I'm not of much help. I only have very limited experience with 
>cmake.
>
>I tried using the LOG option in this way:
>
>file(DOWNLOAD "http://fastjet.fr/repo/fastjet-3.3.3.tar.gz"
>     "fastjet-3.3.3.tar.gz" TIMEOUT 60 LOG FILE_LOG)
>message(STATUS "file log = ${FILE_LOG}")
>
>
>But ${FILE_LOG} is empty. Not sure whether I'm using the option in the 
>wrong way, or file didn't log this problem.
>
>-- 
>Thanks,
>Thiago
>
>

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