Hi Jupiter,
regarding your second question: you'd need to escape the nested
quotes. Also, I'm not sure if 'not exists' can be given in lowercase.
However, I'd strongly suggest using install(SCRIPT ...) instead of
install(CODE ...), precisely because of the escaping issues.
Petr
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:14 AM, hce <jupiter....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have following statement to install a file from source directory to
> destination. It got a conflict error if the destination has already had the
> file.
>
> install(FILES "${source}/myfile.txt" DESTINATION ${destination})
>
> Is there anyway to set either overwrite, or no overwrite if the file exists?
> Or any workaround to stop the conflict error?
>
> I also tried following code, but I've got syntax error, if the install(CODE
> ..) can make it work, could you please correct my following code?
>
> install(CODE "
> if (not exists "${destination}/myfile.txt")
> install(FILES "${source}/myfile.txt" DESTINATION ${destination})
> endif()
> ")
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jupiter
>
>
>
>
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