Re: [cmake-developers] CPackRPM not dealing correctly with symlinks

[Domen Vrankar]

> I just tried, it seems to do the trick. An example source setup that was 
> breaking the RPM building before, is now functioning seemingly correctly. The 
> produced RPM gets the symlink, pointing at the location outside of the 
> package.
>
> I would actually prefer if the code printed a warning in this case. 
> (Requesting a relocatable package, yet pointing at a fixed location outside 
> of the package.) As in our case it was definitely a mistake to include soft 
> links like this in our build. But if that's hard to add to the code, then so 
> be it.

I've added warning message to the patch.

Patch is now on next branch:
https://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commit;h=5e5d0ab

Thanks,
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