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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What is the expected behavior is for INSTALL (TARGETS) when the source file for a particular destination is already at the relevant DESTINATION? For example, this could happen with a Unix Makefile generator for "LIBRARY DESTINATION lib" when CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib and CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY are the same path - the latter having been set differently than the default of course.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In practice it seems like this case works fine for all types of targets in Windows/MSVC generators, and fails only for shared objects in Linux/Unix Makefiles. It might even only fail for shared objects with SOVERSION symlinks but I haven't confirmed that yet. The actual shared library is being deleted at some point after build (leaving a dangling symlink) and then the INSTALL step fails because its source file is missing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Not a big deal for me since this only comes up in very controlled circumstances in my project that are handled by macros - I skip the TARGETS install step when this will happen. I'm just curious if this failure is expected or could be considered a minor bug.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Gregory Peele, Jr.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Senior Scientist<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Applied Research Associates, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Central Florida Division<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>