[CMake] installation of properly line ended text files

Jack Kelly endgame.dos at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 06:04:15 EDT 2007


Dizzy wrote:
> Thanks for the idea. I could use as a workarround configure_file() in some way 
> or another but then I still need one more issue solved. How to 
> escape "${variable}" strings in a input to configure_file() so that it 
> doesn't try to do variable replacement on the placeholder? (this should be a 
> general available feature, people would probably need to escape variable 
> placeholders in other situations than mine). Example: I had an almost similar 
> problem where "${variable}" from the Makefile were replaced by their value by 
> the running "make" but I didnt wanted to so I had to use $${variable}. Is 
> there something similar?

You shouldn't have to do any escaping. Use

CONFIGURE_FILE(${SOURCEFILE} ${DESTFILE} COPYONLY)

-- Jack



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