[CMake] How to set CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES to remove all source code?

[Eric Noulard]

2009/3/9 David Fitzpatrick <fitzpatrick at stellarscience.com>:
> Thanks for the reply Eric,
>
> Let me clarify a few things. By binary distro I was implying an installer
> package without the source code. It is true that my install commands do pull
> in directories that have source code (with INSTALL( DIRECTORY bar/) ) and
> header files (with INSTALL(FILE foo.h)) explicitly but I was hoping I could
> just set the CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES variable to remove the source files
> (foo.h and bar/*.c and bar/*.h) . I have not been successful in getting this
> tact to work.
>
> So I ran a quick test setting the ignore value value to
>   SET( CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES "" )
> AND
>   SET( CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES
>       ".*hpp$"
>       ".*h$"
>       ".*cpp$"
>       ".*cxx$"
>       ".*c$" )
>
> Saving the CmakeLists.txt file and doing a complete rebuild and cpack...
> ultimately with no difference to the output installer. This all seems so
> simple and perhaps there is a critical piece I am missing but I don't
> understand how both examples above have no effect while I still have an
> installer that extracts many .cpp's and .h's...
>
> From you comments:
> I don't see any documentation or references in the mailing list to:
> CPACK_SOURCE_FILES
> What is this? It is currently empty when I print it out at the end of my
> CMakeLists.txt file.

My mistake, I've cut the wrong part, sorry about that

CPACK_SOURCE_FILES was meant to be CPACK_IGNORE_FILES

you want to ignore files in BINARY package so the var to use is
CPACK_IGNORE_FILES

when you want to ignore files in a SOURCE pacakge then you should use
CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES



-- 
Erk