[CMake] Re: Howto create an empty directory during 'make install'?

[Enrico Scholz]

"Alan W. Irwin"
<irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> writes:

>>>> how can I create an empty directory during 'make install'?
> ...
> Instead, I suggest you temporarily forget about DESTDIR functionality
> and instead concentrate on the simpler problem of configuring cmake so
> that the ordinary "make install" works properly

ok, I have now

| INSTALL(CODE "EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND mkdir -p /var/lib/foo)")

and 'make install' works perfectly.

But 'make install DESTDIR=/var/tmp/foo-root' still fails with

| mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/foo': Permission denied


Ditto for the symlink case.



Enrico
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