cmake ignores -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

Question

I\'m just trying to build a cmake project in debug-mode to enable asserts. I tried the following versions:

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -L ../../
cmake         


        

Answer 1

Ok, fgrep -R "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE" finally found the problem for me. In some CMakeLists.txt-file I found something like that:

SET( CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release ... FORCE )

That overrides every user defined parameters (because of the FORCE).

What works for me is that:

IF( NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE )
   SET( CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release ... FORCE )
ENDIF()

Thank's for your hints!