[CMake] [CMake/CPack] empty debian package

[Bill Hoffman]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2008-03-28 00:51+0100 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 
>> If you use install() with an absolute path DESTDIR is still honored on 
>> "make
>> install".
>> But I just tried and while it works with "make install", it doesn't when
>> creating the packages, not only for deb, but lso for the other formats.
>>
>>> This may be worth a feature request (or a patch :-).
>>
>> This actually sounds more like a cpack bug with absolute paths.
> 
> Yes, that was reported by me as bug
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=4993 in May last year.
> 
> There is actually a simple patch to get absolute paths to work for CPack
> (see above bug report), but no action has been taken on that yet.
> 

Actually, it is fixed in 2.6 beta, I just never closed the bug.  If you 
set CPACK_SET_DESTDIR to ON in your CPack config file, then DESTDIR will 
be used.

-Bill