"Alan W. Irwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Due to the last item, these targets are not so powerful and easy to use > like their 'automake' counterparts. But they are an huge improvement to > the current situation where there is nearly no support for creating > source tarballs. > > In fact it is easy to create source distribution tarballs with CPack.
I do not think that CPack is useful for creating source packages: 1. its behavior to package all and everything in the source tree is just a pain and a maintenance nightmare 2. it packages only source files but not (selected) generated files; hacks like copying them into the source tree are not acceptable > The documentation is pretty sparse, but you should look at everything > to do with CPACK_SOURCE in > (http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Packaging_With_CPack). Does not help very much... Source gave some more clues (e.g. about CPACK_INSTALL_DIRECTORY which might be perhaps used to address point 2 above), but I did not found an elegant way to create source packages. In my whole module, only one line ( | COMMAND cd "${MAKEDIST_CHECKDIR}/source" && tar xf "${MAKEDIST_TARBALL}\${MAKEDIST_TARBALL_TMP}" ${MAKEDIST_TARFLAGS} ) could be replaced by CPack magic. But this would require perhaps 10-20 new lines of CPack configuration and is not worth the effort IMO. > CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES gives you complete regex control of what is > excluded I want complete control of what is included... Enrico
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