[CMake] HOWTO declare component inter-dependencies in multi-component packages

[Kyle Edwards]

On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 17:08 -0400, stefan wrote:
> Yes, that is exactly what I'm trying to do, but it doesn't seem to
> have any effect. That is, `dpkg --info ...` doesn't list the
> additional dependency, and correspondingly, running `apt-get install
> ...` on the component package file will install the package without
> first installing the prerequisite component.
> Consider this declaration:
>   set(CPACK_COMPONENTS_ALL runtime development mstool)
> If I now write
>   set(CPACK_COMPONENT_DEVELOPMENT_DEPENDS runtime)
> I will see no effect. That is, the "development" package still does
> not depend on the "runtime" package.
> So I try this:
>   set(CPACK_COMPONENT_DEVELOPMENT_DEPENDS RUNTIME)
> in case capitalization is required. Now the "runtime" component seems
> to get packaged twice (as per the cmake logs), but still no correct
> dependencies.
> Is it time for a bug report ?

Please send us a minimal CMakeLists.txt that reproduces the issue.

Kyle