2013/9/15 Alan W. Irwin <[email protected]>: > On 2013-09-14 15:08-0400 David Cole wrote: > >> Ah, of course. A symlink. Thank you. >> >> Yes, I'm on Windows and using the pre-built binaries of CMake from >> cmake.org. >> >> It's annoying that cross-platform projects actually have symlinks in their >> source trees. > > > Symbolic links are extremely useful and therefore used in a number of > cross-platform software projects that are primarily developed on > Linux. So projects like subversion (and git?) recognize this > situation and replace the symlink with the corresponding file copy for > platforms such as Windows that do not have good symlink support.
This is a long-standing issue for CPack: http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=13251 Since we rely on libarchive it should certainly be handled by libarchive itself: http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=259 > > I strongly feel that tarball unpacking software should follow this > same course as well rather than asking all cross-platform projects to > give up symlinks on platforms that support them. [...] I strongly suiggest you to add your comment on librarchive tracker http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=259 and/or CPack bug entry http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=13251 -- Erk L'élection n'est pas la démocratie -- http://www.le-message.org -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
