[CMake] "make package" still fails to work for absolute install locations.

[Bill Hoffman]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> For cmake-2.4.6 (and also previous versions), "make package" generates a
> compressed file of nul characters, e.g.,
>
> gunzip -c plplot-5.7.1-Linux.tar.gz |od -a
> 0000000 nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul
> *
> 0002000
>
> This bad result apparently occurs because the PLplot project must
> (necessarily) use absolute install locations.  The workaround for us 
> is to
> use "make DESTDIR=/tmp/staging install" followed by the appropriate 
> zip or
> tar command.  When this issue was previously discussed on list, Bill 
> Hoffman
> suggested that cmake could switch to the DESTDIR method internally so 
> that
> "make package" would always work regardless of whether the install 
> locations
> were absolute or relative.
>
> Bill, what is the status of this fix?  Do you have an implementation I 
> can
> test to help insure the fix will get into the next release of CMake?
I have no fix yet for you to try...  Sorry.

-Bill