[CMake] using install() with EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL

[David Cole]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 8. Apr, 2010, at 16:40 , David Cole wrote:
> [...]
> >
> >
> > Why not use the COMPONENT feature of the various install command
> signatures to separate your installables into components...?
> >
> > Then you can run:
> >   cd binary_dir
> >   cmake -D COMPONENT=MyComponent -P cmake_install.cmake
> > and that will run just the install rules associated with the COMPONENT
> MyComponent...
> >
> > You could even add a custom target named "install_my_component" to do
> this via "make install_my_component" if you like...
> >
> > HTH,
> > David
> >
>
> It would be nice if CMake created component-wise install targets. E.g. it
> would be very nice to have:
>
> make install-man
> make install-bin
> make install-shlibs
> make install-dev
>
> While this is only syntactic sugar, it would be so much more intuitive than
> running the cmake_install.cmake script with the appropriate arguments. Also,
> AFAIK this isn't mentioned anywhere in the docs, only in the wiki.
>
>
I agree wholeheartedly.

Do you have time to prepare a patch that implements this feature?
(Or at least to make a feature request in the bug tracker referencing this
thread...?)

:-)
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