[CMake] CPack: Ignoring files using regex

[Chris Wood]

I also posted this to stackoverflow
(http://stackoverflow.com/q/17935748/889604) where I now have an
answer (and some more discussions) along similar lines to the 1 given
below.

On 31 July 2013 20:50, Glenn Coombs <glenn.coombs at gmail.com> wrote:
> The regexp you're using matches anything where the last character at the end
> of the line isn't one of the characters inside the square brackets.  I don't
> think cmake's regexps allow negation of words so specifying a regexp that
> matches everything except projectA/, README and CMakelists.txt is going to
> be tricky.
>
> You could just list the known items that you do want to ignore.  Something
> like this:
>
> set(CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES "/build/;/extrafiles/;/temp/")
>
> will hopefully ignore directories called build, extrafiles and temp.  It
> isn't exactly what you want but might help.
>
> On 29 July 2013 19:40, Chris Wood <c.c.wood at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to get my head round CMake's regex implementation; I have a
>> folder containing 4 folder and 2 text files:
>>
>> build/
>> projectA/
>> CMakeLists.txt
>> extrafiles/
>> README
>> temp/
>>
>> one line of CMakeLists.txt is:
>>
>> set(CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES "[^projectA]$")
>>
>> in my source package that is ten subsequently generated, `build/`
>> `projectA/` and `extrafiles` are present, but `temp/` and the 2 text
>> files are not. I'm trying to get to a stage where the regex will
>> ignore everything in the folder except for `projectA/`, `README` and
>> `CMakeLists.txt`, but can't work out at the moment how the regex I've
>> supplied is giving those results.
>>
>> Any insight will be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Chris
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