[CMake] cmake 2.4.8 RC 9

Mike Jackson imikejackson at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 11:40:42 EST 2008


On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> Mike Jackson wrote:
>> On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
>>> Additionally, is it normal that the items installed (files and  
>>> folders)
>>> have file owner and group both as 501?  My user id is not 501.
>> This is an error in the initial packaging. Since OS X PackageMaker  
>> uses tar (basically) for its archive all the user ids and  
>> permissions are left over from whomever did the packaging. When I  
>> did this sort of thing I usually ran a post build script that set  
>> all the permissions, user and group ids to what was expected, THEN  
>> ran packagemaker on the result directory tree.
>
> This is all fixed in CVS.  The problems are in CPack.  It requires  
> too much code moving to get all the fixes into 2.4.8.  I am  
> thinking I will just yank the ability to move the install for  
> 2.4.8.  We have gotten along without it this far, and the current  
> fix seems to be worst than what we had before.
>
> -Bill


Unfortunately I agree with you. I would rather have it be _correctly_  
installed in /usr than all messed up everywhere. Lets get it correct  
for 2.6.

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Mike Jackson
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