[CMake] File permissions

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri Jan 18 14:34:08 EST 2008


Radu Serban wrote:
> I generate a script (shell on *nix, *.bat on windows) using FILE(WRITE 
> which I then install using INSTALL(PROGRAMS so that the permissions are 
> set properly. However, I'd like to first test it from within CMake using 
> EXECUTE_PROCESS but that obviously fails since the script does not have 
> execute permission at this stage.
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks,

You could test it by running the shell directly.  execute_process will 
not execute a shell script anyway.  So, you would need /bin/bash 
yourscript.sh  or something like that.

-Bill


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