[CMake] cpack and paths too long

[David Cole]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 04/23/2012 01:32 PM, David Cole wrote:
>
>> You should just get used to using shorter paths on the embarrassing OS.
>>
>> This is an early warning sign for you that your end users will also
>> encounter these problems as they install your program on their systems in
>> "non-short" root paths...
>>
>> You can ignore it if you wish, but the fact remains that Windows STILL
>> has many components in it that rely on full path names of ALL files being
>> less than 260 characters.
>>
>> They do support longer file names, but there are still many legacy tools
>> where the limit exists.
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>> David
>>
>>
> I agree with you, unfortunately I'm not the person that has to use smaller
> paths, just writing the build system..
> And good point about the installed application, I think I can assume
> however that if the CPack works also
> the installed application should work, because it doesn't have the ~20
> chars needed for CPacking (but of course
> depends on where it will be installed).
>
> So well the only way is to make really sure there are no long paths around
> then :(
>


If Windows is your target system, then yes: you must make sure all your
paths are short enough.


Cheers,
David
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