[CMake] Question about distribution questions

[Joachim Ziegler]

Hello Dizzy,

Dizzy wrote:
> So you said you want some package made of some files, but a package means some 
> files that eventually will be on the system in some locations (when the 
> package is installed) so with cmake INSTALL() commands you specify how are 
> those files to be installed (if the user would run a hypotethical "make 
> install") and CPack will use that information to create the package ("CPack" 
> has to know in what locations what files do you have, those are automatically 
> determined based on the installation rules created with INSTALL).

Your last statement is exactly what I do not understand in the INSTALL 
command: You have to say in what locations what files you have *AND* 
they are automatically determined? (Isn't this a contradiction?)

Say, for an easy example, that i want to have the files installed in the 
directory where I do the build (or subdirectory).

What would be the command to write in CMakeLists.txt?

INSTALL(FILES a.h a.cpp, b.h b.cpp main.cpp DESTINATION .)

(?)
Joachim