[CMake] install an empty directory

Brandon J. Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 15:29:54 EDT 2006


Brad King wrote:
>
> Actually to be completely correct you need to account for DESTDIR
> installs.  Also you do not want the install prefix or destdir to
> evaluate until install time, so you need to escape the $ tokens too:
>
> INSTALL(CODE "
> MESSAGE(STATUS \"Installing \${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/chicken/1\")
> MAKE_DIRECTORY(\"\$ENV{DESTDIR}\${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/chicken/1\")
> ")
>   

Thanks!  I think, given the several levels of additional understanding 
necessary to correctly install an empty directory, that I will make a 
feature request for a standard, simple way to do it.  Like 
INSTALL(MAKE_DIRECTORY mydir).


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every

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