[CMake] Re: 'make dist' like target

[Andy Cedilnik]

Ok, in CPack you can specify what files you want to copy. It is a bit
of a hard process and since most of our CVS repositories are fairly
clean I never thought of that. That said, I can see somebody doing an
in-source build and then try to make a source TAR. I will document how
to specify exact files to be copied.

Andy

On 11/13/06, Philip Lowman <philip at yhbt.com> wrote:
> Enrico Scholz wrote:
> > "Alan W. Irwin"
> > <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> writes:
> >
> >> We have used CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES to ignore all backup (*~)
> >> files, all CVS directories, and some directories that are specific to
> >> our project.  These regex's (not file globs) are a powerful means of
> >> deciding exactly what you want to go into your source tarball from
> >> the source tree.
> >
> > Mmmh... sounds like a maintenance nightmare to update this ignore list;
> > it will probably result into looking manually into each tarball whether
> > there are really only the wanted files.
> >
> > I like automake's way much more where I can specify exactly what I want
> > and can test for completeness with 'make distcheck'.
>
> I have to agree with Enrico.  RPM packages also work in this manner.
>
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> Philip Lowman
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