[CMake] copying the contents of a directory with cpack

[Bill Hoffman]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2007-09-17 20:31-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Niall Dalton wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a custom target that creates doxygen documentation from my C 
>>> header files. I'd like, as part of my cpack configuration in my main 
>>> CMakeLists.txt, to copy the directory containing the doxygen output 
>>> into the .tar.gz package.
>>>
>>> What is the simplest way to do this?
>> Basically, cpack just uses whatever make install does.  So, you would 
>> need to use the install commands in cmake.  Once those are working 
>> cpack should work.
>
> That advice is correct for generating binary distributions with "make
> package", but in case you wanted to include the doxygen output in a 
> source
> distribution with the "make package_source" command, then all you have 
> to do
> is make your build tree a subdirectory of your source tree or copy the
> doxygen output from the build tree to the source tree.  By default, "make
> package_source" packages everything in the source tree, and you use a 
> regex
> expression variable called CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES to ignore 
> anything you
> do not want.  To see how to set this up, have a look at the top-level
> CMakeLists.txt file of CMake itself.
Since doxygen is output from running the build, a source package would 
not be
a good idea.   I would add custom commands to run doxygen and create the 
docs,
then add rules to install them, and then cpack should install them as well.

-Bill