[CMake] Re: Install of pattern matched files

[David Cole]

Can't you use "PATTERN" without the "EXCLUDE" to achieve this?


On 12/28/07, Rodolfo Lima <rodolfo at rodsoft.org> wrote:
>
> Brandon Van Every escreveu:
>
> > "Too" cumbersome?  Surely you jest.  What's a long-winded list of
> > patterns in terms of your development time?  Two minutes tops?
>
> Oh well... thanks for teaching me another word: jest, and I'm not being
> ironic.
>
> Back to business... imagine the following use case: a project mixes
> headers and source files all inside the same directory, along with other
> files. During install, I want to get all headers and copy to
> <prefix>/include/mylib. That's it. I think this is a very common
> scenario. Right now I'm using cmake to compile and install external
> libraries needed for my project that aren't installed by default in the
> build system. Say I need to upgrade this library... I don't want to mess
> with the build/install recipe again just to add a possibly new file that
> was added.
>
> What I'm doing right now is getting the header names using file(GLOB
> ...) then installing them, but this is not a direct solution (as PATTERN
> ... EXCLUDE is).
>
> > Sure, "it's easier."  Sounds like a low priority feature request to
> > me.  File it in the bug tracker.
>
> I could implement it if I knew that it would be committed to cvs, that's
> why I posted the idea here first.
>
> Happy new year,
> rod
>
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