[CMake] Re: INSTALL command doesn't behave as documented

Thomas Arcila thomas.arcila at imag.fr
Sat Aug 19 13:08:29 EDT 2006


Le Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:02:12 +0200, Alan W. Irwin  
<irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> a écrit:
> software at chickadee> cat CMakeLists.txt project(test)
> install(PROGRAMS test.dat DESTINATION ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/install RENAME  
> test_renamed.dat)
I was about to send the same test case :)

> Thomas, as a temporary workaround for this bug you can use install(FILES  
> ...
> ) instead.  RENAME works fine for me in that case.
>
> install(FILES ... ) is documented as identical to install(PROGRAMS .... )
> except for the default permissions which you can override to be what you
> need for executables.

That's indeed a better workaround.

Thanks



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