[CMake] Cpack not packaging anything

[Thomas Nilsson]

Eric Noulard skrev 2012-11-26 20:12:
> 2012/11/26 Thomas Nilsson <thomas.nilsson at responsive.se>:
>
>> And I've fixed that, so now it actually packages the correct files.
>>
>> But, next question ;-)
>>
>> Now that I am using a relative (to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX) installation
>> scheme, I'd also like to have my TGZ/TZ/ZIP package to work that way. But
>> the files in the .tgz have names starting with my application name (package
>> name) and then the default install path:
>>
>> $ tar ztvf cgreen-1.0.0-beta3.tar.gz
>> -rwxr-xr-x Thomas/None   91772 2012-11-25 21:13
>> cgreen-1.0.0-beta3/usr/local/bin/cgreen-runner.exe
>> -rwxr-xr-x Thomas/None  187260 2012-11-25 21:13
>> cgreen-1.0.0-beta3/usr/local/bin/cygcgreen-1.dll
>> -rw-r--r-- Thomas/None    4552 2012-10-02 16:52
>> cgreen-1.0.0-beta3/usr/local/include/cgreen/assertions.h
>> -rw-r--r-- Thomas/None     659 2012-08-31 00:00
>> cgreen-1.0.0-beta3/usr/local/include/cgreen/breadcrumb.h
>> -rw-r--r-- Thomas/None     463 2012-08-15 19:20
>> cgreen-1.0.0-beta3/usr/local/include/cgreen/cdash_reporter.h
> I guess the '/usr/local/include' should be from CPACK_SET_DESTDIR left over
> to ON. You should now leave CPACK_SET_DESTDIR alone
> (which leave the default OFF value).

Right you are!

> The left over may came from a dirty build dir containing cached value,
> the easiest way to get rid of it is to delete your build dir or at least
> remove the CPackConfig.cmake        CPackSourceConfig.cmake
> files in it.
>> So I'd like to lose the "cgreen-1.0.0-beta3/usr/local/" bit. I've hunted and
>> experimented with CPACK_INSTALL_PREFIX, CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIRECTORY,
>> CPACK_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX, etc. etc. most of which are very poorly
>> documented.
> Documentation improvement is a collaborative effort which sometimes
> lag far behind our hopes  :-]
>
> Did you try
> cpack --help-variable CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIRECTORY
I always forget about this...

>> I even found CPACK_TOPLEVEL_TAG which from the docs ("Directory
>> for the installed files") looked like it could have something to do with
>> this.
> Your was nearly there,
> try
> set(CPACK_INCLUDE_TOPLEVEL_DIRECTORY 0)
Wonderful! That works!

>> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
> Trying...
And succeeding! Thanks!

/Thomas