[CMake] Using relative paths with INSTALL
Brad King
brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Jun 8 13:28:03 EDT 2009
Timothy M. Shead wrote:
> Brad King wrote:
>> Timothy M. Shead wrote:
>>> INSTALL(FILES foo DESTINATION ../MacOS)
[snip]
> The current behavior works fine, my question was whether relative paths
> outside the install prefix (i.e. paths starting with one or more "..")
> were officially sanctioned / officially discouraged. This comes-up
> occasionally with the bundle generator, anytime someone wants to write a
> file outside the Resources directory (which is where the bundle
> generator maps the install prefix).
What is a "bundle generator"?
What does it have to do with install(FILES)? This command has no
knowledge of bundles. It uses the one and only CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.
Please post an example use case of '../MacOS' and a bundle.
-Brad
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