On 8/5/10 6:22 PM, Eric Noulard wrote: > 2010/8/6 Chris Wolf <cw10...@gmail.com>: >> >> Unfortunately, at first, I din't see how your example is different from >> the parts of my CMakeList.txt I sent in my last post. >> >> Then I noticed that your "install(TARGETS..." command had a relative >> path for "DESTINATION", whereas mine had an absolute path. When >> I changed to a relative path, it worked... > > You should really avoid using absolute path destination for installation. > > If you cannot avoid it then you should tell CPack to use DESTDIR > set(CPACK_SET_DESTDIR ON) > > however this comes with some trouble too, > see:http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7000 > >
Yes, but since this is my first day with CMake, I thought I was keeping things simple by using an absolute path, to avoid uncertainty as to where things were being installed. Naturally, and as you suggest, absolute paths are inflexible for a finished product. Some other observations: The CPack-generated tar archive saves the artifact (a shared library, in my case) prefixed by the relative directory specified in install(TARGETS...), which, in turn, is again prefixed by a directory named by the projectname + "-0.1.1" + platformname. e.g for : install(TARGETS usb LIBRARY DESTINATION lib) (where project name is "libusb") The CPack-generated TGZ archive will contain: libusb-0.1.1-Darwin/lib/libusb.dylib ...this, regardless of the setting of CPACK_INCLUDE_TOPLEVEL_DIRECTORY! (I would have expected set(CPACK_INCLUDE_TOPLEVEL_DIRECTORY 0) to result in the archive to contain: ./lib/libusb.dylib) Another observation regarding the CPack-generated *.pkg (wrapped in a *.dmg) : The path is prefixed by "./usr", somehow: (assuming the *.dmg is already mounted) $ cd ./libusb-0.1.1-Darwin.pkg/Contents $ lsbom -s Archive.bom . ./usr ./usr/lib ./usr/lib/libusb.dylib So where does the "./usr/" prefix come from? Thanks, Chris Wolf _______________________________________________ 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake