[CMake] [CMake/CPack] empty debian package

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2008-03-28 00:51+0100 Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> If you use install() with an absolute path DESTDIR is still honored on "make
> install".
> But I just tried and while it works with "make install", it doesn't when
> creating the packages, not only for deb, but lso for the other formats.
>
>> This may be worth a feature request (or a patch :-).
>
> This actually sounds more like a cpack bug with absolute paths.

Yes, that was reported by me as bug
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=4993 in May last year.

There is actually a simple patch to get absolute paths to work for CPack
(see above bug report), but no action has been taken on that yet.

Alan
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