[CMake] configure_file behaves differently on Mac and Linux?

[David Cole]

You are not using full paths as the args to configure_file...

Why not just this?

configure_file( ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/blessed.txt
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/blessed.txt COPY_FILE )


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:59 PM, James C. Sutherland <
James.Sutherland at utah.edu> wrote:

> I am using configure_file to copy files during the build process.  I have a
> nested directory structure, that can be represented as:
>
> /rootdir
>   CMakeLists.txt
>   /test
>      CMakeLists.txt
>
>
> When processing rootdir/test/CMakeLists.txt, I have the following:
>
> #---------------------------
>
> get_filename_component( dir ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE} PATH )
> configure_file( ${dir}/blessed.txt blessed.txt COPY_FILE )
>
> #---------------------------
>
>
> The intention is to copy the file "blessed.txt" from the source tree to the
> build tree prior to running a regression test.
>
> On Mac, this works as I intend it to.  The file "blessed.txt" is copied to
> the "test" subdirectory in the build tree.
>
> On Linux, "blessed.txt" is copied to the top-level directory in the build
> tree, NOT to the "test" subdirectory.
>
> Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
>
> James
>
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