[CMake] Newbie about REGEX

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-02-11 01:54+0100 Pascal Fleury wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I got recently to the wonderful cmake land, and seem to have a
> bumpier-than-needed road on this:
>
> INSTALL( DIRECTORY . DESTINATION include PATTERN "*/*.h" )
>
> or
>
> INSTALL( DIRECTORY . DESTINATION include REGEX "^.*\\.h$" )
>
> The current dir '.' contains a couple of subdirs, which contains both *.cpp
> and *.h and CVS files/dirs.
> In both cases, it installs absolutely all files found in '.' into the target
> include dir, keep the dir structure though. I expected it to filter out
> anything that is not a header file (*.h). What am I doing wrong with this ?

Try four escapes, i.e., REGEX "^.*\\\\.h$".  I am not sure four escapes
are needed in all REGEX contexts, but I am aware of at least one where they are
needed so it is worth a try in this case.

Alan
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