The following issue is now in status NEW (again) ====================================================================== http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=13204 ====================================================================== Reported By: Dave Abrahams Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: CMake Issue ID: 13204 Category: (No Category) Reproducibility: have not tried Severity: minor Priority: normal Status: new Target Version: CMake 2.8.10 ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2012-05-09 09:43 EDT Last Modified: 2012-08-14 11:22 EDT ====================================================================== Summary: Docs don't say what happens to symlinks in copy_directory Description: Most facilities that copy whole directory trees say what they do with symbolic links (i.e. follow or not). The docs for copy_directory don't. I don't know if this applies elsewhere, but a quick scan for similar omissions might be worthwhile. ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0029644) recryn (reporter) - 2012-06-08 05:30 http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=13204#c29644 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 'cmake -E copy_directory some_dir dest_dir' does follow symlinks. That means it does not copy symlinks but the files or directories they point to. I would consider this a bug since 'file (COPY some_dir DESTINATION dest_dir)' copies symlinks without following them. Because of the limitation of copy_directory you have to work around this by creating a custom copydir.cmake script, --------8<------------------------------------------------------- # copydir.cmake # note the trailing slash after ${SOURCE_DIR} file (COPY "${SOURCE_DIR}/" DESTINATION "${TARGET_DIR}") ------------------------------------------------------->8-------- and call this script instead of 'cmake -E copy_directory', e.g.; cmake -DSOURCE_DIR=some_dir -DTARGET_DIR=dest_dir -P copydir.cmake ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0030434) David Cole (manager) - 2012-08-11 21:42 http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=13204#c30434 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sending old, never assigned issues to the backlog. (The age of the bug, plus the fact that it's never been assigned to anyone means that nobody is actively working on it...) If an issue you care about is sent to the backlog when you feel it should have been addressed in a different manner, please bring it up on the CMake mailing list for discussion. Sign up for the mailing list here, if you're not already on it: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake It's easy to re-activate a bug here if you can find a CMake developer who has the bandwidth to take it on, and ferry a fix through to our 'next' branch for dashboard testing. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2012-05-09 09:43 Dave Abrahams New Issue 2012-06-08 05:25 recryn Issue Monitored: recryn 2012-06-08 05:30 recryn Note Added: 0029644 2012-08-11 21:42 David Cole Status new => backlog 2012-08-11 21:42 David Cole Note Added: 0030434 2012-08-14 11:22 David Cole Status backlog => new 2012-08-14 11:22 David Cole Target Version => CMake 2.8.10 ====================================================================== -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
