[CMake] Potential CMake bug ?

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Mon Jun 23 13:56:32 EDT 2008


Félix C. Morency wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's the situation:
> 
> Install is performed according to the ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}:
> 
> install( FILES ${someFile) DESTINATION ${someRelativePath} )
> 
> This works great and don't need admin rights to "make package".
> 
> The problem is that I can't install anything in /etc without redefining 
> the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to "/" or I need admin right to "make package".
> 
> This is a very ugly hack IMHO.
> 
> Any other workaround ?
> 

So, this is a CPack issue.  Have you tried setting:

SET(CPACK_SET_DESTDIR TRUE)

-Bill


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