<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/20 Ansis Māliņš <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ansis.malins@gmail.com" target="_blank">ansis.malins@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>The line<br></div><div>ExternalProject_Add(bullet PREFIX ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})<br></div><div>fails with</div><div><div>Install the project...</div><div>-- Install configuration: "Release"</div>
<div>CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:38 (FILE):</div><div> file cannot create directory: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. Maybe need</div><div> administrative privileges.</div><div><br></div><div>Why? How do I avoid needing root for building my project?</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I don't really know but your ExternalProject_Add( looks strange?<br><br>Do you really want to use **current** project source dir (${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})<br>as the PREFIX of your external project?<br>
<br>I bet this is a mistake you usually use a separate prefix for **each** external project<br>and probably use at least a subdirectory of the current "meta-project"<br><br>It looks like you somehow inherit the "default" CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX<br>
from the current project which happens to be "/usr/local", thus the failure.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>
<div>What I'm trying to do: Build several projects (bullet, ogre, btogre, sdl, mygame) into one thing. ExternalProject seems like the correct way to do that.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Right, looks like a good idea, but you need to specify a proper prefix.<br>
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Lubuntu Linux 12.04</div><div>CMake 2.8.7</div></div></div>
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