[CMake] What is the CMake equivalent for autotools "make dist" ?

[Iosif Neitzke]

With CPack enabled, "make help" will show all the valid targets.  The
"package_source" target should be one of those targets.

A simple project on Linux built with "make package_source" gives me:

${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/_CPack_Packages/Linux-Source/{TZ,TGZ,TBZ2}/CPack_Example-0.1.1-Linux.tar.{bz2,gz,Z}

All three files contain all the source files in my
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}.  (Including CMakeLists.txt)



On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:05 PM, houssen <houssen at ipgp.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is the CMake equivalent for autotools "make dist" ?
> By autotools "make dist", I mean a way to wrap all sources and test files
> needed to build and test the package and / or to be ready for dev.
>
> I googled this question : I heard about CPack (and "make package"), but, I
> am not sure to understand if this is designed to answer the same question.
> Using CPack and "make package", I get a tar.gz that contains the executable
> (the binary in a bin directory) but without the source : this is not what I
> want as sources are missing (the tar.gz is not ready for dev).
>
> Is this the expected behavior ? ("make package" is intended to provide only
> binaries to be installed ? Not the source / test files ?)
> Did I miss something ? Did I forgot something in the CMakeLists.txt ?
> I am supposed to tar the root directory (= project directory containing
> hello.cpp and CMakeLists.txt) after I suppressed all BUILD directories that
> could have been built previously ?
>
> FH
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