CMake recommends out-of-source builds.
(http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ#Out-of-source_build_trees)

- Noel

On 9 December 2010 19:48, Igor Filippov [Contr] <filipp...@mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> Hmmm, looks like the instructions published on that website are a bit
> tricky:
> tar zxf openbabel-2.3.0.tar.gz
> mv openbabel-2.3.0 src
> mkdir build
> cmake ../src
>
> While this is correct, I believe the more common route (as usually described 
> for other packages) would be:
> tar -xzf openbabel-2.3.0.tar.gz
> cd openbabel-2.3.0
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ../
>
> Igor
>
> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 14:37 -0500, John Merle wrote:
>> Noel,
>>
>> When I run "cmake ../src" I am in the build folder inside the openbabel
>> folder. So, the "../src" IS referring to the src directory in the source
>> distribution.
>>
>> If this is wrong should I run "cmake .."?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On 12/9/10 2:25 PM, "Noel O'Boyle" <baoille...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi John, (Please cc to the list)
>> >
>> > You're not alone - someone else just filed the same bug on our bug tracker.
>> >
>> > When you run "cmake ../src", which directory is this exactly? It
>> > should be the directory containing INSTALL, THANKS, etc. Just to be
>> > clear, it is not the "src" directory included in the openbabel source
>> > distribution.
>> >
>> > - Noel
>> >
>> > On 9 December 2010 15:37, Merle, John <merl...@wssu.edu> wrote:
>> >> Dear Noel,
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the reply.
>> >>
>> >> I am using the latest release OpenBabel 2.3 source distrubution and
>> >> Cmake-2.6.4-5.el5.2.x86_64 (recently downloaded and installed).
>> >> I executed the command: cmake ../src 2>&1 | tee cmake.out
>> >>
>> >> The requested output file is attached.
>> >>
>> >> Thank you,
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >> ---------------------------------------------------
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Noel O'Boyle [mailto:baoille...@gmail.com]
>> >> Sent: Fri 12/3/2010 6:51 AM
>> >> To: Merle, John
>> >> Cc: openbabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
>> >> Subject: Re: [Open Babel] cmake error in source install
>> >>
>> >> Hi John,
>> >>
>> >> Can you provide some more background?
>> >>
>> >> What command line did you use? What version of CMake? Is this the Open
>> >> Babel 2.3.0 official release you are compiling? Can you delete
>> >> CMakeCache.txt and rerun CMake attaching the complete output (you
>> >> should pipe it all to a file).
>> >>
>> >> - Noel
>> >>
>> >> On 2 December 2010 16:35, Merle, John <merl...@wssu.edu> wrote:
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>>
>> >>> I get the following errors from the cmake portion of the openbabel source
>> >>> installation on Centos5.5 machine.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks
>> >>>
>> >>> CMake Error at formats/inchi103/CMakeLists.txt:21 (export):
>> >>>   export FILE option given filename "" which does not have an extension 
>> >>> of
>> >>>   ".cmake".
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> CMake Error at formats/inchi103/CMakeLists.txt:23 (install):
>> >>>   install TARGETS given no ARCHIVE DESTINATION for static library target
>> >>>   "inchi".
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:232 (export):
>> >>>   export FILE option given filename "" which does not have an extension 
>> >>> of
>> >>>   ".cmake".
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:234 (install):
>> >>>   install TARGETS given no ARCHIVE DESTINATION for static library target
>> >>>   "openbabel".
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> >>>  Dr. John K. Merle
>> >>>  Assistant Professor of Chemistry
>> >>>  Winston-Salem State University
>> >>>  601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
>> >>>  W. B. Atkinson Building
>> >>>  Winston-Salem, NC 27110
>> >>>  Office:  (336) 750-2237
>> >>>  Fax: (336) 750-2549
>> >>>  Email: merl...@wssu.edu
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