[CMake] cmake version 2.5-20060616 -- INSTALL(DIRECTORY ...) broken?

[kent williams]

No, not silly advice. I just use the documentation on cmake.org out of
habit, and they apparently don't keep it up to date. For a while,
apparently, during 2.4 CMake, there was an INSTALL(DIRECTORY ) form
available and they got rid of it.

A pity because other than that, there is no portable way to simply
copy a directory tree to an installation directory.  I did it the hard
way around, putting a CMakeLists.txt in every subdirectory that needs
to be copied, with an INSTALL(FILES ) command that lists all the files
in that directory...

On 5/22/07, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> Then the subject line of your original email is a typo? I'm sorry if I
> offered silly advice, I thought you were using CMake 2.5-20060616...
>
>
>
> On 5/22/07, kent williams <nkwmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Um, I use a newer CMake, just read the docs on CMake.org which are
> > apparently older?
> >
> > On 5/22/07, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> > > 20060616 is a snapshot from CVS that is almost a year old now. You
> should
> > > use the --help with your local CMake for what existed in CMake as of
> that
> > > time...
> > >
> > > Or - better yet - update to a more current CMake.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/22/07, kent williams <nkwmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > According to the man pages for 2.4-patch 7 RC-6 on CMake.org, there is
> > > > a form of the INSTALL command for directories.  After reading through
> > > > the description, I added a command to install a subdirectory into the
> > > > bin install directory:
> > > >
> > > > INSTALL(DIRECTORY pipeline_approved DESTINATION bin)
> > > >
> > > > i.e. pipeline_approved is a directory in the same directory as my
> > > > CMakeLists.txt, and I want the file to go into the installation tree
> > > > bin directory.
> > > >
> > > > But when I run CMake, I get this message:
> > > >
> > > > CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
> > > >
> > >
> /Volumes/Scratch/kent/brains2/src/iplProg/CMakeLists.txt:61:
> > > > INSTALL called with unknown mode DIRECTORY
> > > > -- cmake src dir = /Volumes/Scratch/kent/brains2
> > > >
> > > > What's up with that?
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