[CMake] cpack -C CPackSourceConfig.cmake not making source package

[Jack Stalnaker]

--config worked. Wow, if -C is the wrong option, I wish it wouldn't appear
in the tutorial and in the wiki section on creating a package. From
cmake.org itself. That's confusing. It's not the only error I've noticed in
the tutorial. In the section on testing, it's never mentioned that
enable_testing() has to be called. I only found that out when my tests
failed to run. I had to search outside the tutorial for the appropriate
sequence of calls, and then verify in the tutorial source files that
enable_testing was called.

I did try an out of source build (making certain to delete the cache files
first), but I got the same results. It's still only packing the bin
directory with the built file.

Thanks for the help.

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2012/9/7 Jack Stalnaker <jack.stalnaker at gmail.com>:
> > Even if I download the tutorial sources directly from cmake.org (for
> this
> > tutorial  http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake_tutorial.html ), unzip
> them,
> > and run cpack -C CPackSourceConfig.cmake, I don't get a source package.
>
> -C is the wrong option.
>
> You should do:
>
> cpack --config CPackSourceConfig.cmake
>
> > I get what I would consider a binary package. I saw that another user had
> > reported the same issue here
> >
> http://cmake.3232098.n2.nabble.com/How-to-deliver-a-source-code-package-td6505888.html
> > but didn't really resolve it. That user resorted to make package_source,
> > which does indeed pack up the source...and everything else in the
> directory.
>
> This is the expected CPack "source" packaging behavior.
> If you want to avoid that:
>
> 1) build out-of-source:
>        http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ#Out-of-source_build_trees
>
> 2) setup appropriate value for CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES
>
>    see cpack --help-variable CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES
>
> > I tried throwing some dummy "sandbox" files in there, and they get zipped
> > right up, too.  Am I doing something wrong? I'm following the tutorial as
> > well as I can tell.  It seems like the command above should create a
> source
> > package containing no binary files, and only the sources that you have
> told
> > it to include.
>
> CPack "source" packaging is currently packaging the source directory
> while excluding "CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES" that's unfortunately
> a very basic behavior.
>
> CPack cannot tel apart binary or source file unless you do out-of-source
> build.
>
>
> --
> Erk
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>
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