[gmx-developers] cmake gromacs manual

[Berk Hess]

Hi,

I always build Gromacs out of source, but I didn't know you would have to do
something extra to compile it in source.
It works now, and much easier than before.

Thanks for all the work!

Berk

On 05/12/2011 04:48 PM, Mark Abraham wrote:
> On 13/05/2011 12:05 AM, Szilárd Páll wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I am trying to make the Gromacs manual, but I don't understand a cmake
>>> error.
>>> What does "built out of source" mean? Which source?
>>> And I don't know what to set LATEX_OUTPUT_PATH to.
>> Out of source normally means that the directory from where you issue
>> cmake and where the build tree is generated is different from your
>> source tree, for instance:
>> source tree: ~/gromacs-4.5
>> build tree:   ~/gromacs-4.5-build
>
> A subdirectory of the source tree is sufficiently "out of tree" for 
> CMake, and this makes organization much simpler. Now all your build 
> trees are inside the source tree and don't need to be named to reflect 
> the source version.
>
>> I've never built the manual with CMake, so I'm not completely sure
>> that this is the final solution.
>
> I ported the manual to CMake a month or so back, and I updated the 
> manual README to describe the necessary steps. Hopefully I did a good 
> enough job. With a proper out-of-source build (which is always 
> encouraged/required for CMake) you do not need to set LATEX_OUTPUT_PATH.
>
> Mark
>
>>> CMake Error at UseLATEX.cmake:389 (MESSAGE):
>>>    LaTeX files must be built out of source or you must set 
>>> LATEX_OUTPUT_PATH.
>>>   Call Stack (most recent call first):
>>>    CMakeLists.txt:5 (LATEX_GET_OUTPUT_PATH)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   CMake Error at UseLATEX.cmake:389 (MESSAGE):
>>>    LaTeX files must be built out of source or you must set 
>>> LATEX_OUTPUT_PATH.
>>>   Call Stack (most recent call first):
>>>    UseLATEX.cmake:792 (LATEX_GET_OUTPUT_PATH)
>>>    CMakeLists.txt:85 (ADD_LATEX_DOCUMENT)
>>>
>>>
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