[CMake] Re: 'make dist' like target

Philip Lowman philip at yhbt.com
Mon Nov 13 23:58:23 EST 2006


Enrico Scholz wrote:
> "Alan W. Irwin"
> <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> writes:
> 
>> We have used CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES to ignore all backup (*~)
>> files, all CVS directories, and some directories that are specific to
>> our project.  These regex's (not file globs) are a powerful means of
>> deciding exactly what you want to go into your source tarball from
>> the source tree.
> 
> Mmmh... sounds like a maintenance nightmare to update this ignore list;
> it will probably result into looking manually into each tarball whether
> there are really only the wanted files.
> 
> I like automake's way much more where I can specify exactly what I want
> and can test for completeness with 'make distcheck'.

I have to agree with Enrico.  RPM packages also work in this manner.

-- 
Philip Lowman
Simulation Development Engineer, Modeling and Simulation Technology
General Dynamics Land Systems
http://www.gdls.com


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