[CMake] where is the INSTALL command ?

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Quoting "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca>:

> On 2007-06-06 17:42+0200 Mehdi Rabah wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As I understand, the new INSTALL command was introduced in cmake 2.4.
>> I have some workfriends who have some not-so-old computers with cmake
>> 2.2(ubuntu
>> 6.06), and I want them to be able to compile my project.
>>
>> So, my question  : is there a way to make my project compatible with older
>> cmake version ? (in regard of the INSTALL command)
>> I mean, is there a cmake module which contain the INSTALL, or some file that
>> I can include in my project ?
>
> I wouldn't do anything special to attempt to accomodate those stuck with
> cmake-2.2.  Instead, I think your best short-term bet is simply to ask your
> friends to compile cmake-2.4.6.  I have done that on ubuntu Dapper (6.06),
> and it is really easy to do. Furthermore, that desktop is already getting
> seriously out of date (thanks to the large pace of change of Linux desktop
> programming) so I plan to move on to a more recent Linux distro this summer,
> and I am sure many of your friends will be doing that as well on a similar
> time scale for the same reasons.

Alternatively, I would suggest to backport CMake 2.4.6 to Ubuntu 6.06.  
It is really easy to build the CMake 2.4.6 Ubuntu package and it runs  
flawlessly (I have been using it on KUbuntu 6.06 amd64 for months)

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