[cmake-developers] Making the default install component name configurable

[Eric Noulard]

2012/5/14 Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>:
> On Monday 14 May 2012, Brad King wrote:
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>> On 5/13/2012 2:15 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
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>> > the CMAKE_DEFAULT_INSTALL_COMPONENT_NAME variable is still in
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>> > "Unspecified", so this is still the default.
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>> I'd rather the name be
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>> CMAKE_INSTALL_DEFAULT_COMPONENT_NAME
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>> to keep the "CMAKE_INSTALL_" prefix for variables affecting
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>> installation (along with CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX).
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> Or shorter "CMAKE_INSTALL_DEFAULT_COMPONENT" ?
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> But that sounds more like a boolean switch...

Yes agreed.
I'd rather go for
CMAKE_INSTALL_DEFAULT_COMPONENT_NAME

or may be
CMAKE_INSTALL_UNSPECIFIED_COMPONENT_NAME

and in any case I agree with Brad concerning the CMAKE_INSTALL_ prefix.

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