[CMake] File permissions on CONFIGURE_FILE output

Chris Hillery chillery-cmake at lambda.nu
Wed Feb 3 06:05:39 EST 2010


Whoops - I take it back. I see that it IS there in the 2.8 online docs, as a
separate file(<COPY|INSTALL> entry as you said. Not terribly clear IMHO, but
anyway. So I guess this is a new 2.8 feature (it really truly isn't there in
2.6.4).

Ceej
aka Chris Hillery

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Chris Hillery <chillery-cmake at lambda.nu>wrote:

>
> You probably didn't grep the man-page thoroughly ;-) It is documented as
>> "file(<COPY|INSTALL>"
>>
>
> I did, actually! It ain't there on the online manual:
>
> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#command:file
>
> Moreover, your script doesn't work here with CMake 2.6.4. Maybe it was
> added in CMake 2.8? I don't have that available for testing, but it's not in
> the online documentation for 2.8 either:
>
> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#command:file
>
> I'm glad it's apparently been added, but I guess it must be a very new
> thing!
>
> So, tell me - are there any other features for generically modifying file
> permissions without copying the file?
>
> Ceej
> aka Chris Hillery
>
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