Why are KDE includes installed with COMPONENT Devel?

Stephen Kelly steveire at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 00:48:10 CEST 2011


Stephen Kelly wrote:

> I also noticed that that behaviour no longer happens with cmake/cpack
> master. Everything is put in one tarball instead with that version. I
> don't know if that's a bug or a feature, but if it's a feature it's a
> source incompatibility in cmake.
> 

After some investigation, it seems the incompatibility is in cmake 2.8.3, 
which I'm using, compared to 2.8.2, and restored in 2.8.4:

http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11452

For anyone interested, the 2.8.3 behaviour is enabled with 

SET(CPACK_ARCHIVE_COMPONENT_INSTALL 1)

Though I'm not certain it makes sense still.

Steve.



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