[CMake] using CPack

[Thomas Arcila]

Le mardi 25 septembre 2007 à 19:54 -0700, Alan W. Irwin a écrit :
> On 2007-09-25 20:14-0500 Javier Gonzalez wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just started using cmake and it seems I can't figure out how to use
> > CPack. The documentation in the wiki page didn't help much.
> >
> > I can do make, make install and it all works all right but if I do make
> > package I get and empty package (a tar ball with nothing in it).
> 
> "make package" does not work (produces empty results rather than the desired
> binary package) for absolute install prefixes.  You could use relative
> install locations (see the documentation of the INSTALL command), or if you
> must use absolute install locations (as in the PLplot case) there is a
> simple patch to the cmake core that makes "make package" work in that case,
> see bug report 4993.
> 
> To Bill Hoffman (who has been assigned this bug) .  When is this simple
> patch going to be available in at least the cvs version?

Hi,

You could have a look at bug 5257 which provides a better fix.
cpack provides two ways to build binary packages :
- using CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (so called movable packages)
- using DESTDIR and whole destination filename.

This patch provides a CPACK_MOVABLE_PACKAGE boolean than can be set to
TRUE to enable full hardcoded name working.

BTW I don't consider current behavior buggy. I'm currently using it as
it provides a way to have relocatable packages build straight away with
the right directory structure. But indeed non CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
prefixed path (i.e. absolute ones) does not work with it.

Bill could you have a look at this patch ?

Thomas