[CMake] unexpected INSTALL problems

[Dominik Szczerba]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Andreas Naumann
<Andreas-Naumann at gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 15.06.2011 13:58, schrieb Dominik Szczerba:
>>
>> I am trying to copy all libboost* stuff from /usr/lib to
>> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX just as most users would guess:
>>
>>
>
> Why do you want to copy the boost libraries from /usr/lib to
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX? And why all of them??
> I don't see any reason for this.
> If you wants to use them, you could use
> find_package(Boost .....)

I need to create a redistributable package with this and none other
boost version. It works very well for us and this policy is not up to
me. The point of the mail was the very unintuitive cmake behavior. I
will appreciate any hints.

Dominik

>
>> INSTALL(DIRECTORY ${BOOST_RUNTIME_DIR}/ DESTINATION
>> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin FILES_MATCHING .......)
>>
>> Whatever I specify for matching I always get half of my system copied
>> instead of the requested files. E.g.
>>
>> PATTERN "libboost*.so" does absolutely nothing and REGEX
>> "libboost.*\.so.*$" complains about the slash, when removed does
>> nothing either. As a result all content is always copied.
>>
>> Interestingly and confusingly, the same thing (only used PATTERN)
>> works for e.g. "*.h". What is special here?
>>
>> Are there any examples how to use this functionality? Both the
>> documentation and the FAQ are not very comprehensive in this matter.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Dominik
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