Installing data files
Alexander Neundorf
neundorf at kde.org
Sun May 30 14:00:17 CEST 2010
On Saturday 29 May 2010, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Dijous, 27 de maig de 2010, Allen Winter va escriure:
...
> > I don't think GLOBing does anything to create proper dependencies.
> > So you need to be a bit careful using it.
> >
> > For just installing data files, I think it seems pretty safe though.
>
> Though unless you touch the cmake files so that cmake is rerun the new
> files won't get installed as the globing is done on cmake time not on
> install time so new files after cmake run are not detected (at least that
> is what happened some time ago, no idea if was fixed)
As you say, the globbing happens at cmake time, and adding or deleting files
from a directory doesn't cause cmake to rerun, so cmake doesn't pick up those
files automatically.
That's the documented behaviour, there's nothing which needs to be "fixed"
here.
Alex
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