[CMake] [cmake-developers] productbuild: Installing to absolute system path or to user home path

[David Cole]

According to the docs, the INSTALL command uses the absolute path if
it is given as the DESTINATION, so .... it should work.
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/install.html

Did you try using a double quoted string, instead of escaping the
space with a backslash?

I think this should work for the absolute one:
INSTALL( ... DESTINATION "/abs/path/to/some folder")

For the one in the home directory, I'm not sure if a string that
starts with "~" is considered absolute or not, so it may or may not
end up where you expect it. Can you resolve it before hand with a
get_filename_component call, (or otherwise), and pass in a string that
begins with "/" ...?


Hope this helps,
David C.


On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 4:36 PM Roman Wüger <roman.wueger at gmx.at> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I tried to install a file/directory with productbuild on macOS which is generated with CPack
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> The most of the files are installed correctly, but I have two problems:
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> If I want to install to “/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules”
> If I want to install to the users modules folder “~/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules”
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> How can I archive these two?
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> I already tried the following with no luck:
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> install(DIRECTORY $<TARGET_FILE_DIR:${PROJECT_NAME}>/${CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME}.lrplugin
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>                 DESTINATION /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules)
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> install(DIRECTORY $<TARGET_FILE_DIR:${PROJECT_NAME}>/${CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME}.lrplugin
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>                 DESTINATION ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules)
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> Best Regards
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> Roman
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