[CMake] installing/overwriting single file

[Randy Heiland]

That does indeed work great - thanks!  If anyone knows if this  
solution is dependent on a recent cmake version, I'd welcome hearing  
about it.  I happen to be using 2.8rc3, but would like to know if it  
might cause problems for earlier versions.

-Randy

On Nov 4, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Randy Heiland wrote:
>> During an 'install', I would like to copy/overwrite a source file  
>> to a
>> destination file.  How?  Something like the following (in syntax),
>> although I am assuming that it is only legal to copy a file into a  
>> dir
>> (and therefore the 'foo.cxx' isn't allow)?
>>
>> 	INSTALL(FILES
>> 	    ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/foo_new.cxx
>> 	    DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/foo.cxx
>> 	    )
>
> Does
> INSTALL(FILES ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/foo_new.cxx
>        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}
>        RENAME foo.cxx)
>
> do what you want ?
>
> Alex
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