Yes, David wrote in his email:
"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."
Adrian
On 4/5/21 1:13 PM, Scott Le Grand wrote:
> [External Email]
>
> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ambermd.org_pmwiki_pmwiki.php_Main_CMake-2DQuick-2DStart&d=DwICAg&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=dl7Zd5Rzbdvo14I2ndQf4w&m=sft1OHe_xX-GDM4uHPVPEHsvLe7e2Lq8-nbjtfnJ0WU&s=Hy8rovsFvIKmrfvIcSCBkQWyB4BnnM4NkLkrYJMfk8w&e=
>>
>> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ambermd.org_pmwiki_pmwiki.php_Main_CMake-2DCommon-2DOptions&d=DwICAg&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=dl7Zd5Rzbdvo14I2ndQf4w&m=sft1OHe_xX-GDM4uHPVPEHsvLe7e2Lq8-nbjtfnJ0WU&s=z9qXCLM0idv4EG9e8ly2GzBrW1nzinOSFCiw5X1xAgg&e=
>>
>> 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 compiler info in the help output are 4-5 years out of date, and other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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