[CMake] Using relative paths with INSTALL
Clinton Stimpson
clinton at elemtech.com
Mon Jun 8 14:10:06 EDT 2009
Timothy M. Shead wrote:
> We're going off on a tangent here, so I'll restate my question.
> Forget the context. If I write
>
> INSTALL(FILES foo DESTINATION ../bar)
>
> ... it works fine today. Will it work in the future? Is it
> guaranteed to work on all platforms? I ask because I recognize that
> it is an unusual use-case.
>
> Many thanks,
> Tim
>
But you'd only ever do that with the cpack bundle generator, right?
Why not use the drag-n-drop generator instead? Then you won't have to
go outside the install prefix. This is one of the reasons I contributed
the drag-n-drop generator.
Clint
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