[CMake] Automatically add a revision number to the CPack installer name

[David Cole]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Glenn Ramsey <gr at componic.co.nz> wrote:
> Is it possible to add, at build time, a revision number to the installer
> file name produced by CPack? I understand that to get the revision number at
> build time one must run a command and I have used that technique to generate
> a source code header, but I cannot figure out how to apply it to the package
> file name. The simplest method would appear to be to add a post-build
> command that renames the file to the package target, but it appears that
> this cannot be currently done [1].
>
> A previous list message [1] suggests the following:
>
>> If you want to hook it up automatically, you could write your own
>> version of the package target that just calls cpack itself in
>> ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}. That target could have a post-build rule that
>> does the rename.
>
>
> When I tried that. It created an infinite loop with cpack calling make and
> make calling cpack.
>
> What would I need to do to correctly implement this solution? Is there
> another way to do it?
>
> Glenn
>
> [1] <http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2011-May/044440.html>
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