[CMake] cmake -E tar using bzip2 compression

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Wed Nov 11 21:36:53 EST 2009


Hugh Sorby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using CMake 2.6 and I would like to be able to decompress bz2 
> files.  Is it possible to add bz2 compression to the tar command (or 
> even better is it already there?).  I was hoping to do something like 
> cmake -E tar xjf my_really_cool_source_files.tar.bz2
> 
> I have looked but didn't find it, which certainly doesn't rule out the 
> fact that it is already there.
> 

That is in CVS CMake, but not in a release yet. (Not even 2.8.0.)

-Bill


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