[CMake] Continue install after a failure

[David Cole]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Petr Kmoch <petr.kmoch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> thanks for your tip. Unfortunately, 'make -k install' doesn't help, as the
> entire install step is a single command (cmake -P ...), so once this fails,
> there is no other command make could continue with. Is there no way to do
> this natively in cmake?
>
> I could (in theory) add OPTIONAL to all install() commands, but that has the
> problem of being absolutely silent when a file is not found, and I'd need at
> least a message or warning. Is cmake really all-or-nothing in this aspect,
> or does anyone know a feature I'm overlooking?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Petr
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Petr Kmoch <petr.kmoch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > when running the install step of a CMake-generated buildsystem (i.e.
>> > 'make
>> > install' or building the VS project INSTALL), the run terminates after
>> > the
>> > first failure (e.g. when it cannot find a file which is to be
>> > installed). Is
>> > there a way to globally change this behaviour so that the error is
>> > reported
>> > (perhaps as a warning), but the install step goes on?
>>
>> For Makefile Generator you can run make -k install, that way make
>> keeps on going even when errors occur. No idea about VS, NMake, Ninja
>> or XCode generators probably depends on wether the respective tool has
>> a switch for continuing if errors occur.
>>
>> Andreas
>
>
>
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CMake is all-or-nothing with respect to an install tree. If the cmake
install script hits a "FATAL_ERROR" message then it stops and will not
continue beyond that point...

The best way to "Continue install after a failure" is to eliminate the
failure, and try again.


HTH,
David