[cmake-developers] Making Config.cmake files easier to write

[David Cole]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2012/2/16 Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com>:
> > On 2/16/2012 3:29 PM, Eric Noulard wrote:
> >>
> >> What are you targeting?
> >>
> >> install-time i.e. "make install" usage?
> >> package install time prodduced with cpack usage?
> >> package install time NOT produced with cpack usage?
> >> a subset of this?
> >
> >
> > The goal is a FooConfig.cmake file for "make install" time but
> > that contains no hard-coded paths referring to the install prefix.
> > It should be totally relocatable.  I think we've resolved all
> > that in the other parts of this thread.
>
> I'm not convinced, yet I'll have to try with the example provided by Alex
> by adding proper CPack usage in it.
>
> Currently I see in BarConfig.cmake
> get_filename_component(BAR_HELPER_PREFIX_DIR
> "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../../../" ABSOLUTE)
>
> computed by CONFIGURE_CONFIG_FILE with
> if(NOT IS_ABSOLUTE "${CCF_INSTALL_DESTINATION}")
>    set(absInstallDir "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${CCF_INSTALL_DESTINATION}")
> endif()
> file(RELATIVE_PATH CONFIG_RELATIVE_PATH "${absInstallDir}"
> "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}" )
> where you can see the usage of "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX".
>
> since CPack is using DESTDIR in order to do its local install before
> actual packaging
> I cannot see how this could work with CPack but again I may be simply
> missing the point
> I'll try to follow the thread tomorrow and try by myself.
>
>
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It can't work with CPack, not in the sense of "work" as in "the software
will run from its DESTDIR-based intermediate CPack driven install location"

However, it is a correct config file that will work when an end user
installs it from an rpm or a deb package. (Or an NSIS installer on
Windows...) In fact, it will work regardless of where they install it.

Remember, these config files should not actually be processed by anything
when they are in that DESTDIR CPack install tree, though.


David
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