On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Eric Noulard wrote:
>
>
> Le lun. 7 oct. 2019 à 16:49, Cornelis Bockemühl <corne...@bockemuehl.ch> a
> écrit :
>> Thanks to both you and J Decker: I would say that this is still the part
>> that I understood! So basically the word "install" in cmake language could
>> be replaced by "copy" more or less in common human language - right?
>
> Nope I oversimplified.
> This is not a bare copy, e.g. the runtime path (a.k.a. RPATH or RUNPATH) is
> updated as well.
>
File permissions are also set according to what was specified in install() via
`PERMISSIONS which can be different from the file permissions of the file in
the build directory.`
`I think I saw that there was even a "make install/strip" feature that also
stripped targets during installation.`
`I think that the word install is used consistently between GNU autotools and
CMake:`
*2. * (Computer Science) to transfer (computer software) from a distribution
file to a permanent location on disk, and prepare it for its particular
environment and application.
It's that "prepare it for..." clause that makes it different from a straight up
copy.
I don't know what may be causing your issues. I do know that at least one
person felt that CMake installation is too aggressive in that it is always
installing files that it doesn't need to during the installation step.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58069372/does-cmake-always-evaluate-install-rules-even-for-up-to-date-targets#comment102540437_58069372
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Fred
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