[CMake] INSTALL(TARGET ...) Target not in this folder

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am Friday 16 July 2010 schrieb Aaron_Wright at selinc.com:

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> I have sort of an interesting directory structure for my projects. I have
> a folder for libraries, a folder for executables, and a folder for
> packages. The packages folder contains debian packages that combine
> libraries and executables from the other two folders. So they look sort of
> like:
> 
> IF(NOT TARGET executable_a)
>         ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(
>                 "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../executables/executable_a"
>                 "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/executable_a")
> ENDIF()
> 
> INSTALL(
>         TARGET executable_a
>         DESTINATION bin)

[...]

> On a side note, I don't put the INSTALL(TARGET command in executable_a's
> folder because not everyone that ADD_SUBDIRECTORY on that folder wants
> executable_a to be installed. In fact this is the problem I was trying to
> solve by moving the INSTALL command up a level.

Why not making that install decision depend on a variable then?

IF (DO_INSTALL_EXE_A)
   INSTALL(TARGETS ...)
ENDIF ()

Putting this in the executables directory and setting all the DO_INSTALL_* 
things right in the deb directory should do the trick.

Eike
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