Xavier Delannoy wrote: > hi all, > > it would be great to have the '-C' option > > example : > > cmake -E tar xvzf mytar.tgz -C mydestdir Feature requests may be submitted here: http://www.cmake.org/Bug For now try this: cmake -E chdir mydestdir cmake -E tar xvzf /path/to/mytar.tgz -Brad