On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 22:41 +0200, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
> I've just checked in modifications to CMakeLists.txt that enable
> cpack. Everything in that file is pretty self-explanatory, the
> documentation on the cmake wiki covers most stuff.
> The procedure for using cpack is as follows:
>
> In a separate BUILD_DIR (anywhere on your system, one of the main
> ideas behind cmake is out-of-source builds)
> this should ideally NOT be a subdirectory of the source dir, as
> otherwise build files get mixed with source files.
> cmake {whatever cmake flags you want, none really necessary for just
> making the tarball as it will be rerun later anyway} $SOURCE_DIR
>
> then:
> make package
> will make binary packages, everything from windows installers to
> self-extracting tgz to Mac packages is available out-of-the-box from
> cpack
> or
> make package_source
> will make a source tarball. The format is in the CMakeLists.txt
> file as CPACK_SOURCE_GENERATOR; right now tar.gz and tar.bz2 are on.
> All it really does is compress and rename the source dir. As I
> understand it unlike with autotools there is nothing to actually do
> before distribution. The disadvantage is that end-users must have also
> have cmake installed.
>
> The end-user then has to decompress the source, run cmake (again, an
> out-of-source build is possible), then make && make install.
>
> Tejas Guruswamy
> Nice one ! I know we've already had the name conversation, but I was just thinking maybe it should be kio-rapip-kde4 instead of kde4-kio-rapip, and should the package actually be synce-kio-rapip-kde4 ? Mark > Mark Ellis wrote: > > > I added support for CMake to jhbuild a while ago, and when needing to > > > do a "./configure && make dist" for a cmake build system, jhbuild > > > would issue: > > > > > > cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr > > > make package_source > > > > > > Doubt that the prefix thing is strictly neccesary, but i never got > > > round to trying it without. > > > > > > > Thanks John, that's a step in the right direction. I can now build a > > source package, it just doesn't build :( Something to do with having the > > correct cpack directives I think. > > > > Mark > >
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