[CMake] Using relative paths with INSTALL
Clinton Stimpson
clinton at elemtech.com
Mon Jun 8 14:13:57 EDT 2009
Clinton Stimpson wrote:
> Timothy M. Shead wrote:
>> We're going off on a tangent here, so I'll restate my question.
>> Forget the context. If I write
>>
>> INSTALL(FILES foo DESTINATION ../bar)
>>
>> ... it works fine today. Will it work in the future? Is it
>> guaranteed to work on all platforms? I ask because I recognize that
>> it is an unusual use-case.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Tim
>>
> But you'd only ever do that with the cpack bundle generator, right?
> Why not use the drag-n-drop generator instead? Then you won't have to
> go outside the install prefix. This is one of the reasons I
> contributed the drag-n-drop generator.
>
> Clint
>
>
And I don't think this
INSTALL(FILES foo DESTINATION ../bar)
will work with the PackageMaker or DragNDrop generators.
Clint
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