Hi, sorry, I don't understand everything you wrote.
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Raphael Cotty wrote: > Hi, > After looking at the source code I found in CPack/cmCPackDebGenerator.cxx > that if CPACK_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX is not set then it is set to "/usr". > Then the data.tar.gz is creating from directory usr. > First this code will give an understandable error if the user sets > CPACK_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX to something else than "/usr". Do you mean it is good that it gives an understandable error or that it is bad that there is an error ? Why do we get an error if it is set to something else ? > Secondly this doesn't allow the debian package to install files anywhere. You mean installing the binary deb package to a different prefix than what it was intended for ? Is this supposed to work ? If you have RPATH in the files then it can't be installed to an arbitrary location. > This insertion of a usr directory is done I suppose to allow the tar > command not to add the control, debian-binary, and itself. > One way to get ride of this is to remove the "usr" insertion, do the tar > first like this: (tar cfz ../data.tar.gz .), copy it to the current > directory, remove it from the previous location. Then do the rest of the > work like before. > This of course can be optimised. Can you please explain a bit more ? Thanks for the feedback Alex _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
