[Cmake] CMake support for packaging?

[Andy Cedilnik]

Hi Kris,

CMake currently does not support package making. We do have plan to
include support for things like RPM, DEB, Wise, ... sometime in the
future, but it will probably take some time.

That said, you can use DESTDIR when installing.

Set DESTDIR to the location where you want the installation to be. For
example, CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is set to let say /usr and the DESTDIR is
set to /tmp/packages, then when you run make install, it will put all
the files to /tmp/packages/usr. Now you go to /tmp/packages and package
all the files in your RPM, DEB, TGZ, or whatever.

DESTDIR is environment variable.

			Andy

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 12:48, Dekeyser, Kris wrote:
> Does CMake support different types of INSTALL targets? I'll explain:
>  
> After building successfully we have two options:
>  
> - INSTALL the project on the local machine (or another test machine)
> or
> - update the central depot for central creation of the install tool
> and CD.
>  
> The INSTALL target is perfectly suited for the first option. How would
> we handle the second option? The depot update is a little bit specific
> for our situation, but the issue is actually the same for any form of
> packaging that may be required (e.g. RPM on Linux, MSI on Windows,
> ...).