[CMake] Running cpack without source folder

[Miklos Espak]

Hi Attila,

indeed, I was running cpack as 'make package'. Everything is fine if I run
"cpack --config ./CPackConfig.cmake".

Thanks very much.

Miklos


On 10 May 2016 at 10:42, Attila Krasznahorkay <
attila.krasznahorkay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you run the cpack executable directly, it should not
> reconfigure/rebuild your project. As far as I know...
>
> How do you run it now? "make package"? That will reconfigure/rebuild the
> project not really because of CPack, but because of how the Makefiles are
> set up.
>
> Cheers,
>             Attila
>
> > On 10 May 2016, at 09:43, Miklos Espak <m.espak at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > given a complete build folder with all external projects, is it possible
> to run cpack without touching the sources?
> >
> > As I see, it now starts with configuring and building the project.
> (Skipping what is up-to-date, usually everything.) This can cause a problem
> if you switched branch after the built has finished and before running
> cpack.
> >
> > Does cpack actually need anything from the sources? If not, is it
> possible to tell cpack not to try to reconfig/rebuild the project?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Miklos
> >
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