Maybe print out the link to the wiki during cmake?
On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 9:50 AM David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2021, Adrian Roitberg wrote:
>
> >What would be really good to have is something like the old configure -h
> >or --help, but for Cmake, so one can have a simple list of options for
> >building some things but not others, etc.
>
> We are using the wiki rather than a --help option for this purpose. Two
> pages are good starting points:
>
> https://ambermd.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CMake-Quick-Start
>
> is a good overview. It has an FAQ with answers to questions such as
> "How can I build only one specific program?" or "I want to see what
> commands
> make is actually executing!"
>
> Also very helpful is this one:
>
> https://ambermd.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CMake-Common-Options
>
> This shows you how to ask for the most common changes, such as how to skip
> certain builds, change what libraries are used, change compiler flags, etc.
>
> If you look at the table of contents at the left of any of these pages, you
> will see several other CMake related pages.
>
> For everyone: please note that these are wiki pages! If there is something
> that is unclear, or is missing, please edit things to make them better.
>
> ...hope this helps....dac
>
> p.s. the links above are printed out at the very beginning of every CMake
> run. See also Section 2.2 of the Amber Reference Manual.
>
> p.p.s. Note that the current output of configure --help is 54 lines long,
> and that of configure --full-help (which is needed to get help for any but
> the most elementary subjects) is 154 lines. Also note that things like
> compiler info in the help output are 4-5 years out of date, and other
> pieces
> of information in the current help output are also wrong or misleading.
> So,
> in my view, using a wiki is a better way to make things easy to read, and
> to keep them up to date.
>
> Finally, the current configure help doesn't even try to answer Adrian's
> question about "building some things but not others". The answer for the
> legacy configure system is this "find the relevant Makefile, and edit it."
> For CMake, you add an option to your run_cmake script.
>
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