[CMake] CMake CVS + CPack + NSIS - Installing files with spaces

[Doug Gregor]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Gregory Peele ARA/CFD <gpeele at ara.com> wrote:
> I'm really pleased with the component-based CPack installer with the NSIS
> backend, and am currently using the July 24th  CVS snapshot of CMake to take
> advantage of it.  Today I ran into a  puzzler though.  Some of the files I'm
> installing have spaces in the relative path, and the NSIS script containing
> them is being generated with extra quotes surrounding the full relative
> install path, causing makensis to fail.
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> For example, my file is "Plugin Config.xml", and my install command is
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> INSTALL (FILES "Plugin Config.xml" DESTINATION bin/config COMPONENT
> PLUGINS).
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> In the generated NSIS project.nsi file, this creates a line
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> Delete "$INSTDIR\"bin\config\plugin\Plugin Config.xml""
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> under the Remove_${PLUGINS} section.  The extra quotes are causing makensis
> to bail (and confusing it enough that tracking down the actual problem was
> quite a challenge.)
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> Do I just not properly understand how to quote strings in CMake, or is this
> a bug in the NSIS generator?

That's definitely a bug in the generator. Would you file a bug report
at http://public.kitware.com/Bug/ ?

  - Doug