Trying to compile Calligra 3 following https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building/3
the best (less bad) result I obtain is summarized here below


leleu@leleu-portable:~/kde$ ls
build inst5 src
leleu@leleu-portable:~/kde$ cd build
leleu@leleu-portable:~/kde/build$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/kde/inst5 $HOME/kde/src/calligra -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
-- Using CMake version: 3.2.2
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:32 (message):
Compiling Calligra inside the source directory is not possible. Please
refer to the build instruction
https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building/3


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/leleu/kde/src/calligra/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
leleu@leleu-portable:~/kde/build$

The relevant lines in ~/kde/src/calligra/CMakelists.txt are
string(COMPARE EQUAL "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}" "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" isBuildInSource)
if(isBuildInSource)
message(FATAL_ERROR "Compiling Calligra inside the source directory is not possible. Please refer to the build instruction https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building/3")
endif()

In the 995 lines log file I see no clue.


My cmake command has been delivered from the build repertory $HOME/kde/build/calligra which is distinct of the source directory, so I don't find why it fails.

Moved the topic here.

Also as I suppose you would like to build Kexi 3: it's not in calligra.git anymore. So I added this note to the https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Building page:

Just note that Kexi 3 is now in separate git repository so instead of "git clone kde:calligra" invoke " git clone kde:kexi".

I am sorry for the state of the instructions, it's Alpha stage.

Ideas:
- remove and recreate the build/ directory : "rm -rf build"
- clean up the source directory ("cd calligra; git clean -fd"); to compile Kexi, get the kexi repository instead

Hi leleu, this sounds like you before already tried to build inside the sources, and from that still have some build artifacts around in the sources (most important a file CMakeCache.txt). You are not the first to run into it, we should improve the error message.