[CMake] CMake tar.gz package does not include all installed files

[Eric Noulard]

Hi Nicolas,

AFAIK
CPack Archive generators (ZIP, TGZ, etc...) cannot properly handle
ABSOLUTE_INSTALL path.
The 3 install statements:

install(FILES glewlwyd.service DESTINATION
${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/systemd/system COMPONENT config)
install(FILES glewlwyd-init DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/etc/init.d/
RENAME glewlwyd COMPONENT config)
install(DIRECTORY webapp/ DESTINATION
${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/glewlwyd/webapp/ COMPONENT runtime)

Use a DESTINATION which is absolute. Thus the issue with archive generator.

CPackDeb and CPackRPM do handle absolute install path "transparently"
because they internally set CPACK_SET_DESTDIR.

Have a look at
cmake --help-variable CPACK_WARN_ON_ABSOLUTE_INSTALL_DESTINATION
and
cmake --help-variable CPACK_SET_DESTDIR



2018-02-08 15:47 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Mora <nicolas at babelouest.org>:

> Hello,
>
> I use a CMakeLists.txt script to build an application which works pretty
> well so far, except for the tar.gz package build.
>
> In the install procedure, I copy the application executable, the config
> files and, SysV init and SystemD service files, and an entire directory.
>
> In the make install and in the .deb file generated, all those files are
> correctly installed. But the .tar.gz package only has the executable and
> the config file, not the rest.
>
> Can anyone help me point out where my mistake is?
>
> The script is available here:
> https://github.com/babelouest/glewlwyd/blob/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
>
> The install commands that are missing in the .tar.gz package are the
> following:
> https://github.com/babelouest/glewlwyd/blob/cmake/CMakeLists.txt#L211
> https://github.com/babelouest/glewlwyd/blob/cmake/CMakeLists.txt#L212
> https://github.com/babelouest/glewlwyd/blob/cmake/CMakeLists.txt#L213
>
> And the .tar.gz package generator commands are here:
> https://github.com/babelouest/glewlwyd/blob/cmake/CMakeLists.txt#L252
>
> Thanks in advance
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Eric
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