[CMake] configure_file behaves differently on Mac and Linux?

[Bill Hoffman]

James Bigler wrote:
> Has the requirements to configure_file changed?  From the 2.6.4 docs:
> 
> configure_file
>       Copy a file to another location and modify its contents.
> 
>         configure_file(InputFile OutputFile
>                        [COPYONLY] [ESCAPE_QUOTES] [@ONLY])
> 
>       The Input and Output files have to have full paths.  ...
> 
> Perhaps it needs to warn when not using full paths (if that case can be 
> detected).
So, in 2.8 and newer the current binary directory will be used for the 
output file if it is not a full path.  For maximum compatibility with 
all versions of CMake full paths should be used for all of these.  I 
have closed the bug.  I think the current working directory must be 
different on mac for some reason.  Anyway, I think that is why the docs 
were changed.


-Bill