[CMake] INSTALL() command from cvs

[a.neundorf-work at gmx.net]

On Thursday 12 April 2007 13:24, Filipe Sousa wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have some projects that installs system libraries. One of them is
> libstdc++.so.6 that is symlink to
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6.0.8:
> $ readlink -f $(g++ -print-file-name=libstdc++.so.6)
>
> With cmake 2.4.6 INSTALL() command will copy the file, but with cmake from
> cvs the same command will copy the symlink
> INSTALL(FILES /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6
> DESTINATION lib)
>
> I can't pack and distribute symlink instead of a file copy.

I think this is a fix for a bug I reported "symlink is turned to normal file 
with INSTALL(DIRECTORY ... )".
IMO it is more correct this way, anyway, this doesn't help you...

> Is there a easy way to get the old behavior back?

Currently not I think. Maybe you can copy the files during cmake time and then 
install the copied files ?

Bye
Alex
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