[CMake] cmake -E tar using bzip2 compression

Kelly T. Kirk (CISD/CIV) kirk at arl.army.mil
Thu Nov 12 11:12:36 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

How about tar.bz2 to work with ExternalProject_Add Module?

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