On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Knox, Kent<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm integrating CPack into my build system, and can't quite get
> CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES to work right.
>
> I want to cull individual files from the source package, like .ncb files
> and .pdb files and such.  It seems as though CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES
> honors the directories that I want to exclude, but not individual files.
> For instance:
>
> set( CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES
> "/Build/;/\\\\.hg/;/\\\\.svn/;/\\\\.ncb$/" )
>
> will ignore the Build directory, as well as the .svn directory, but
> happily includes the .ncb files, even though I don't want them.
>
> I found a related post on stackoverflow.com from another user who seems
> to be experiencing the same problem:
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/727075/regular-expression-for-hidden
> -files-under-unix>
>
> Thx in advance.
>

My advice is to use out of source builds so that no generated files
like .ncb .. are mixed in with your source.

John
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