Am Montag, 10. Januar 2011 schrub Eric Noulard: > 2011/1/10 Tobias Ellinghaus <h...@gmx.de>: > > Hello, > > > > I create some files inside of CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR using > > configure_file(). These are not installed but needed for compiling the > > program. When creating a .tgz file with make package_source these files > > are not included so that the > > package_source will include all file inside CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR > so if you are doing out-of-source build the observed behavior is the > expected one. > > > resulting source package is basically useless. > > WHY do you think so ? > WHY you want to put GENERATED file inside your source .tgz? > Do you expect your user to build from source without CMake?
No, reasons at the end of the mail. > > Is there a way to add these files? I have searched through google and the > > list archives and only found http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=8438 > > I cannot see the relationship between your issue and the refered bug? If I understood the issue in that bug correctly it would allow me to force cmake to copy/move the files into the source tree before packaging and remove them afterwards. > > which would at least allow to copy the files into > > CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR. > > You may generate those file (with configure_file) inside your source tree > and the generated file will be packaged by "package_source", but again > WHY do you want to include a generated file inside your source package? Because some information (like latest git commit as version string) is no longer available when using a source package. Of course I can put the generated files into the source tree, but that's kind of against the idea of out-of-source builds.
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