[CMake] Run commands after "make install"

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Tue Apr 11 16:21:59 EDT 2006


Michael Biebl wrote:
> after a successfull "make install" run I want to display some messages
> and execute a command. With automake I used a install-data-hook in the
> toplevel Makefile.am for this, so the commands were processed at the
> end of the install run.
> How can I do this with cmake? I tried to add a custom target which
> executes this commands and used ADD_DEPENDENCIES(install
> post_install). But this does not work as install is not recognized as
> a target.

In CMake 2.x you can use the POST_INSTALL_SCRIPT property on a target. 
See the documentation of the SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES command.  In CVS 
CMake you can use the INSTALL command's SCRIPT mode.

-Brad


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