[cmake-developers] [DISCUSSION] Using COMPONENTs for CMake install(...)?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday, December 03, 2014 00:50:52 Konstantin Podsvirov wrote:
> CMake is being developed for a long time, but does not use COMPONENTs during
> installation. Why?
> 
> The command install(...) allows you to specify the COMPONENT. Why this
> feature is not used by CMake?
> 
> Is it possible to split the install CMake on COMPONENTs? Further it can be
> used when creating redistributable packages.

you can use them when calling the cmake_install.cmake manually, instead of 
calling "make install": cmake -DCOMPONENT="MyComponent" -P cmake_install.cmake


I think at least some of the package generators support the components too.

Alex