[cmake-developers] [CMake 0014504]: libarchive supports 7-Zip, Add 7-Zip support to cmake

Mantis Bug Tracker mantis at public.kitware.com
Tue Oct 22 14:46:19 EDT 2013


The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14504 
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Reported By:                Aaron Nowack
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   14504
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   low
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2013-10-22 14:46 EDT
Last Modified:              2013-10-22 14:46 EDT
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Summary:                    libarchive supports 7-Zip, Add 7-Zip support to
cmake
Description: 
As I understand cmake uses libarchive for inflating tar.gz files. This is useful
within ExternalProject_Add as you can pass in a URL of a tar.gz and cmake
handles it. Since libarchive _also_ supports inflating 7z formats can cmake also
support it?

For example, I wanted to use ExternalProject_Add with a custom build & install
step to setup the libusbx binaries [1] on windows but they are in 7z format.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/libusbx/files/releases/1.0.17/binaries/

Steps to Reproduce: 
ExternalProject_Add( 
  URL <path to 7z archive> 
  ...
)

Is not supported

Additional Information: 
libarchive supports 7-zip , https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2013-10-22 14:46 Aaron Nowack   New Issue                                    
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