[CMake] Copying directories as post build events without losing parent directory

[David Cole]

$ cmake -E copy_directory foo bar/foo

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On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a custom target which runs a command similar to this:
>
> $ cmake -E copy_directory foo bar
>
> The problem is that the contents of "foo" are copied inside of "bar",
> instead of it creating a directory "bar/foo" and putting the contents
> in there.
>
> Is there a way to make copy_directory behave like this? If not, I
> guess my only option is to create a little CMake script that runs
> file(INSTALL) to copy the directories like I want.
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