[CMake] How to use a multiline long string as a variable for CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY

[Eric Noulard]

2014-12-19 11:25 GMT+01:00 Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>:
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> 2014-12-19 11:22 GMT+01:00 Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com>:
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>> There is this variable that cpack uses for description of package.
>> This description has many lines and uses special symbols, like quotes.
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>> Putting it into a variable is extremely complex, so I would prefer to
>> load it from external resource. I did this:
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>> FILE(READ "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/build/summary"
>> CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION)
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>> following http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/command/file.html
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>> the only thing that happened was that this variable expanded in
>> CPackConfig.cmake to a long unescaped text, that caused a syntax error
>> in that cmake file.
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>> What is a correct way to do that?
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> You can use CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_FILE instead of
> CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION
> i.e.
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> set(CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_FILE
> "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/build/summary)
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see documentations of CPACK_XXX vars:

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/module/CPack.html?highlight=cpack_package_description#variable:CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_FILE

-- 
Eric
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