INSTALL_FILES -> INSTALL transition?

[Dmitry Suzdalev]

So, no one interested?
Is this too early (or not in time) to propose such changes?

No opinions? ;)

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 15:51, you wrote:
> Hello, buildsystem-ers! ;)
>
> As stated in CMake's doc, INSTALL_FILES command is deprecated in
> favour of INSTALL( FILES ... DESTINATION ...) command.
>
> So the following code
>
> INSTALL_FILES( ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}/some_dir files_to_install )
>
> should be replaced with
>
> INSTALL( FILES files_to_install DESTINATION ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}/some_dir )
>
> Well, we have a problem here:
>
> ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR} contains "/share/apps".
>
> It is fine as long as INSTALL_FILES is used, but INSTALL works
> correctly only if its DESTINATION argument _doesn't_ begin with "/"
> (i.e. it must be share/apps), or it will try to install to root
> directory "/share/apps".
> I.e., if INSTALL command sees a "/" in dest-path, it won't prepend
> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} to it.
>
> The question is:
> Is it planned to replace deprecated INSTALL_FILES with INSTALL in
> CMakeLists.txt?
> If yes, then ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR} needs to be modified to not include
> the leading "/".
>
> Rather global change :).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dmitry.

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