[Insight-users] Re: Other build failures (fwd) : configuring GLUT

[Neil Killeen]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Luis Ibanez wrote:

>
> Hi Neil,
>
>
> The problem is that you are providing
> directories to the libraries, while
> full filename + path are expected.
>
>
> For example, GLUT_glut_LIBRARY expects
> the full path plus filename to  "libglut"
>
>
> Please see below the corresponding lines
> in a correct CMakeCache.txt file:
>
>
>   GLUT_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=/usr/include
>   GLUT_Xi_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so
>   GLUT_Xmu_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so
>   GLUT_glut_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib/libglut.so
>
>
> Unfortunately the current 'help' messages to this
> CMake variables are quite ambiguous.:
>
>   "The place where xxxx library can be found"
>

aaaaaggggggh.  i had already figured this out in some places
but did not twig to it here for some reason.

please can somebody clarify this in the 'help' messages then ?
5 minutes work from someone writing accurate helps could save the rest of
us (and again, you) wasted effort !

cheers
neil