[MINC-users] strange mnc2nii behaviour

[Luis Ibanez]

Sean McBride wrote:
> On 10/23/07 11:33 AM, Andrew Janke said:
> 
> 
>>To build with cmake, do this:
>>
>>  1. Get Cmake (and configure it with autoconf/automake amusingly --
>>        they may have fixed this though...)
> 
> 
> No need to actually build CMake itself in most cases, there are binaries
> for many OSes here:
> <http://cmake.org/HTML/Download.html#latest>
> 

Just FYI:

CMake is not really configured with autoconf/automake.
It does have a "configure" shell script that simply
calls a "bootstrap" shell script. You will find this
script in the file "CMake/bootstrap".

An initial Makefile is generated from this script, and
then CMake configures itself during its own build process.


    It is a chicken-egg problem, like trying to
    build a compiler without having a compiler    :-)



In any case:

As Sean pointed out, you can simply use a binary-installed CMake.

Note also that CMake is already available as a package with most
GNU/Linux distributions, as well as Cygwin and MinGW. If you are
running GNU/Linux, chances are that you already have a cmake installed.



    Luis