[CMake] CPack source package install location

cen imbacen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 17:13:58 EDT 2016


Exactly on point, thank you.

Domen Vrankar je 04. 07. 2016 ob 08:44 napisal:
> Hi,
>
>> I have a very standard CPack configuration for deb package. I have two
>> questions:
>>
>> 1. I generate the deb with: cpack --config CPackConfig.cmake -G "DEB"
>>
>> This is supposedly a binary package but when I install it on the machine I
>> see header files being installed in /usr/include.
>>
>> Is this normal?
> I'm guessing that CPackConfig.cmake is generated by cmake and not hand written.
>
> CMake generates CPackConfig.cmake that can be used to create a package
> with content listed with 'install()' commands (see:
> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/install.html). If those
> commands contain header files then those files will be part of the
> package. You could also split packages between bin and dev packages by
> using COMPONENT attribute in install commands and then generating
> component packages - one per component.
>
>> 2. Header files are installed into /usr/include but there is one problem:
>> other projects using the library are including header files with #include
>> <libname/SomeHeader.h> as a standard practice.
>>
>> So I actually want them installed in /usr/include/libname instead. After
>> scouring the CPack variables in documentation I didn't really find anything
>> suitable to do this. Is it possible to achieve?
> This would have to be changed in CMakeLists.txt (install commands) or
> is possibly already written with prefix variable in mind in which case
> you have to look into CMakeLists.txt install commands and set the
> variable that is used there for this purpose.
>
> Regards,
> Domen



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