[CMake] CMake extracting tar via execute_process does not allow extraction in subdirectories

[Saad Khattak]

As far as I can tell, it does not extract at all.

The return code when it is able to extract is 0, when it is not able to
extract, it is 1

- Saad


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:12 PM, David Cole <dlrdave at aol.com> wrote:

> Where does the extraction end up?
>
> Or does it fail regardless of the WORKING_DIRECTORY argument?
>
> Use :
>
>    execute_process(... RESULT_VARIABLE rv)
>    message("rv='${rv}'")
>
> to see what the return value of CMake is.
>
> Is there an error message when trying to extract the tar file?
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saad Khattak <saadrustam at gmail.com>
> To: CMake Mailing List <cmake at cmake.org>
> Sent: Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:06 pm
> Subject: [CMake] CMake extracting tar via execute_process does not allow
> extraction in subdirectories
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> If I have the following command:
>
>
>
>   execute_process(
>     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E tar xzf mySDK.tar.gz
>     WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
>     )
>
>
> the extraction works and extracts the tar in the current directory. But
> this:
>
>
>
>   execute_process(
>     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E tar xzf mySDK.tar.gz
>     WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/**someSubdirectory
>     )
>
>
> fails to extract into 'someDirectory' (even if it already exists -
> although it 'should' create the directory for me).
>
>
> Am I misunderstanding some commands?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Saad
>
>
>
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