[sword-devel] cmake python bindings user location

[Greg Hellings]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Ben <cricketc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/16/2013 11:55 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 9:22 PM, <cricketc at gmail.com
>> <mailto:cricketc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey Greg,
>>
>>     I'm building the python bindings with cmake 2.6.4. I'm trying to
>>     specify a user location, but it doesn't work with current svn -
>>     SWORD_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR is always just "OFF", even if I pass a
>>     value through the cmake command. If I pass "1" as the value, then
>>     SWORD_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR gets set, but it's obviously not what I'm
>>     looking for.
>>
>>     If I comment out the OPTION setting in cmake/options.cmake, it seems
>>     to work properly for me.
>>
>>
>> What exact command line are you invoking CMake with? And are you doing
>> it from a clean configuration directory (e.g. new dir or "rm -rf * .*"
>> beforehand)? CMake is very unfriendly towards attempts to reconfigure a
>> directory.
>>
>
>
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="~/**sword-cmake-build/install"
> -DLIBSWORD_LIBRARY_TYPE="**Shared" -DSWORD_BUILD_TESTS=Yes
> -DSWORD_BINDINGS=Python -DSWORD_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=~/**sword-cmake-build/install
> -DSWORD_BUILD_EXAMPLES=Yes /path/to/svn/sword
>
> Yes, it's a clean directory.
>
> I output the value of SWORD_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR, and it says the value is
> "OFF". Again, if I remove the OPTION command in options.cmake, then it
> takes the value that I pass in from the command line.
>
>
> -Ben
>

I was misusing the CMake OPTION command. Turns out it only works for ON/OFF
values and cannot handle arbitrary strings. I have updated the handling to
hopefully work as intended. Can you give it a whirl and let me know if it
is now working better for you?

--Greg


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