[CMake] Rename the output of cpack

[Tyler]

Ah, yes. If only we could add dependencies and pre-/post-build
commands to built-in CMake targets...
http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=8438

Absent that, the best I can think of is to just write a custom command
that renames ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/your_package.extension. (I don't know
of a way to query the build system for what the full name will be,
including extension. I maintain my own mapping of CPACK_GENERATOR to
extension (STGZ -> .sh, NSIS -> .exe, etc.)).

If you want to hook it up automatically, you could write your own
version of the package target that just calls cpack itself in
${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}. That target could have a post-build rule that
does the rename.

Maybe someone else has better ideas but that's the hack that springs to mind.

hth,
tyler

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:18 AM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com> wrote:
> CPack allows me to configure the basename of the package, but I would like
> to be able to change the extension used.  I dug around the CPack sources and
> it looks like the file extension is baked into the 'virtual const char*
> GetOutputExtension() { return ".sh"; }' function.  It doesn't look like I
> can configure it, so I'm trying to see if there is a way to rename the file
> after it's been generated.  Kind of like a post-link command.  Does anyone
> know how I could do this?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
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