[CMake] TGZ installer following links
John R. Cary
cary at txcorp.com
Thu Jun 16 14:16:23 EDT 2011
On 6/16/11 12:09 PM, Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2011/6/16 John R. Cary<cary at txcorp.com>:
>> I am using the TGZ packager.
Sorry, my error in not providing more complete info:
> Which version of CMake/CPack ?
> On which platform(s) ?
octet.cary$ cmake --version
cmake version 2.8.3
octet.cary$ uname -a
Linux octet.carys.home 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11
07:06:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
octet.cary$
> Do you use CPack alone or CMake+CPack?
I have CPACK inside my CMakeLists.txt.
>> My dist looks something like
>>
>> topdir
>>
>> nextdir link -> nextdir/lowerdir
>>
>> lowerdir
>>
>> It seems that CPACK, instead of copying the link, follows the link
>> so that I get two copies of lowerdir.
>>
>> Is this expected?
> I guess not, symlinks should be packaged just fine on platform where
> it is supported.
>
>> Can I change this behavior?
> Where does the symlinks comes from ?
> In which CMake INSTALL commands are they found?
if (NOT Win32)
install(CODE
"
foreach (subdir foo bin current)
execute_process(COMMAND ln -s Bar/\${subdir} .
WORKING_DIRECTORY \${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${FLAVOR_INSTALL_ROOT}
)
endforeach ()
"
)
endif ()
> I use CMake generated symlinks (for versioned shared libs) all the time
> and this works well with CPack TGZs?
I am using links for a directory instead of a library.
> May be you can provide us with a minimal example project exhibiting the issue
> or at least send us your CPackConfig.cmake file.
>
If the above does not immediately suggest a solution to someone, I
will create a test case.
Thx for your help.....John Cary
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