About a year ago we converted our build system, which used a huge pile of custom Makefile code, to use CMake. It has been working well for us.
But now, the boss (who dabbles at the command line) and a couple of the developers are asking for a "feature" which went away with that conversion. Namely, the old Makefiles used the "install -b" command, which results in every installed binary first making a backup copy of the old file before replacing it. That is: Before install: % ls ~/bin ~/bin/myprog After install: % ls ~/bin ~/bin/myprog.old ~/bin/myprog Is there a quick and easy way to globally add such an automatic copy of the install target in CMake? I've searched high and low for some setting or method, but have come up empty handed. We do use a globally included set of CMake rules in all of our CMakeLists.txt files, so if there's a bit of code that could be added there, that would be sufficient. All suggestions welcome! Thanks, ..chris
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