[CMake] How to set suid for an executable with CMake and CPack?

[Dong Tiger]

"fakeroot make package" solved my problem.

2009/8/10 Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>

> 2009/8/10 Dong Tiger <idlecat511 at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks. I'll take a look although I feel CPack should be able to take
> care
> > of that automatically.
>
> That's your point of view and I respect it but...
>
> > Especially the owner of files should not be the user who builds the
> package.
>
> this is precisely the jobs of the packager (or the final packaging
> tool, rpm, dpkg etc...)
> to chose that kind of thing.
> How would CPack decide to change ownership?
>
> root may be an option for your particular package and distros but other
> choices may be valid too. Moreover giving ownership to root mostly
> need to be root unless you use something like fakeroot (already
> pointed-out previously).
>
> That said some CPack generator (DEB, RPM) mostly relies on underlying
> tools (dpkg, rpmbuild)
> so the CPACK_DEBIAN_xxx or CPACK_RPM_xxx are used to control actual feature
> of the underlying tool.
> See:
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackPackageGenerators#DEB_.28UNIX_only.29
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackPackageGenerators#RPM_.28Unix_Only.29
>
> If you know the dpkg specific features or file from DEB format which
> should be used
> to tune the package build, do not hesitate to propose patches.
>
> Concerned file for CPack Deb generator are
> CMake/Source/CPack/cmCPackDebGenerator.cxx
> CMake/Source/CPack/cmCPackDebGenerator.h
> CMake/Modules/CPackDeb.cmake
>
> --
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