Re: [Boost-cmake] Path to test binaries for Boost.MPI (and Boost.graph_parallel) seems to be incorrect

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] Path to test binaries for Boost.MPI (and Boost.graph_parallel) seems to be incorrect
From: Michael Jackson (mike.jackson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-20 15:45:50

On May 20, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Nick Edmonds wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've been hacking the CMake build system to build the tests/examples  
> for libs/graph_parallel and in doing so found that the path to the  
> tests seems to be incorrect.  I borrowed large portions of  
> CMakeLists.txt from Boost.MPI, which seems to have the same issue.   
> The path to the tests is given as "${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/$ 
> {CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/tests/${PROJECT_NAME}/${testname}" in libs/mpi/ 
> test/CMakeLists.txt.  The way my build (of the trunk) is configured  
> this turns out to be "/./tests/mpi/${testname}" which obviously  
> doesn't point to the tests.
>
> Either EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH and CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR need to be  
> properly initialized, or the path needs to be changed to something  
> like "${Boost_SOURCE_DIR}/bin/test/${PROJECT_NAME}/${testname}.  Can  
> anyone comment on what the correct approach would be (or point out  
> if I did something dumb that caused EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH and  
> CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR not to be properly set).
>
> Thanks,
> Nick

Are you doing an "in-source" build? If so you really need to be doing  
an "out-of-source" build which basically means you need to have a  
separate build directory. So something like this to get going:

cd Boost-SVN
mkdir Build
cd Build
cmake ../

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