[CMake] CMake CVS + CPack + NSIS - Installing files with spaces

[David Cole]

Was there ever a bug filed on this? If so, what's the issue number in the
bug tracker?
Thx,
David Cole

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Doug Gregor <doug.gregor at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Gregory Peele ARA/CFD <gpeele at ara.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm really pleased with the component-based CPack installer with the NSIS
> > backend, and am currently using the July 24th  CVS snapshot of CMake to
> take
> > advantage of it.  Today I ran into a  puzzler though.  Some of the files
> I'm
> > installing have spaces in the relative path, and the NSIS script
> containing
> > them is being generated with extra quotes surrounding the full relative
> > install path, causing makensis to fail.
> >
> >
> >
> > For example, my file is "Plugin Config.xml", and my install command is
> >
> >
> >
> > INSTALL (FILES "Plugin Config.xml" DESTINATION bin/config COMPONENT
> > PLUGINS).
> >
> >
> >
> > In the generated NSIS project.nsi file, this creates a line
> >
> >
> >
> > Delete "$INSTDIR\"bin\config\plugin\Plugin Config.xml""
> >
> >
> >
> > under the Remove_${PLUGINS} section.  The extra quotes are causing
> makensis
> > to bail (and confusing it enough that tracking down the actual problem
> was
> > quite a challenge.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Do I just not properly understand how to quote strings in CMake, or is
> this
> > a bug in the NSIS generator?
>
> That's definitely a bug in the generator. Would you file a bug report
> at http://public.kitware.com/Bug/ ?
>
>  - Doug
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