<html>#2761: some ExternalLibraries require cmake to build
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<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Reporter:</td><td>Roland Haas</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Status:</td><td>new</td></tr>
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<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Type:</td><td>bug</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Priority:</td><td>major</td></tr>
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<p>Comment (by Roland Haas):</p>
<p>yes, that is a possibility: <a data-is-external-link="true" href="https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/ExternalLibraries-CMake" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/ExternalLibraries-CMake</a> and has been tested in the past.<br>
Upside: tested, needs no extra installed packages.<br>
Downside: Cmake is very slow to compile, so ideally I would not have to build it. </p>
<p>The ExternalLibraries provided CMake has been used on clusters (where cmake was too old), so is known to work (needs some support by their client thorns [basically have to look for cmake in <code>$CMAKE_DIR/bin/cmake</code>] though since the CST does not allow to manipulate PATH, though I suspect one could actually make that work by manipulating variables in make.FOO.defn in bindings).</p>
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Ticket URL: <a href='https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2761/some-externallibraries-require-cmake-to'>https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2761/some-externallibraries-require-cmake-to</a></p>
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