[CMake] adding program suffix

[Michael Wild]

That's not what Chandan wants to achieve. He wants to have a suffix
appended to every executable being installed, so he can have different
versions installed and select among them through the suffix. Think gcc-4.4,
gcc-4.6 and gcc-4.7 being present on your system.


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:27 AM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:20 AM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Chandan Choudhury <iitdckc at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>> Dear cmake users,
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>>>> I am very new to cmake. I really find it interesting. I installed
>>>> gromacs (4.6.1) with it. One simple query regarding its usage is, how do I
>>>> add program suffix to the executables created.
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>>>    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES( <target> PROPERTIES
>>>                   SUFFIX ".different.suffix" )
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>>>> Chandan
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>> IMHO this is not they way to go about this problem if you're not the
>> developer of the software... It might be the last resort if the developers
>> were not careful enough to allow users to override the program suffix, but
>> IMHO this should be configurable through the cache.
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>> Sure; but should be implemented on a per target basis, and certainly not
> globally.  I've had great success just chaining other CMake based projects
> into my builds, if they don't do rude things like set global library
> suffixes that end up propagating through previuosly working projects.
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>> Michael
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