death to kdeaddons, long live extragear!

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 22:50, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > mention that cpack which comes with cmake has improved a lot in cvs,
> > which will become cmake 2.6 later this year.
> > cpack can now also create debian and RPM packages.
> > Projects which want to create packages with cpack need to set a bunch of
> > variables and then include CPack. While this makes things ugly if you do
> > this directly in the cmake files, you can of course split this into a
> > separate file: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake#CPack
>
> neat. does it handle splitting things up, so that one can then for instance
> do:
>
> cd kdebase/workspace/libs/plasma
> make package
>
> and come out with a libplasma.rpm and libplasma.deb? if so, that would be
> super. it seems to imply that it would as it uses the INSTALL directives,
> but i'm not sure as i haven't tried it yet and am already tired for the
> day.

I think it can create  
a) one package for the whole project (as in build tree)
b) packages for specified projects (as in the PROJECT() command), but I 
haven't tried that yet

> if so, we could perhaps include some CPack directives in our projects to
> make packager's lives easier: packaging things separately would become a
> matter of a script recursing into various dirs and calling "make package"
> on it....
>
> *thinks*
>
> it would be -really- cool if there were per-project package targets
> generated as well so one could do `make libpasma-package plasma-package` or
> sth along those lines from the top level. =)

Maybe I can have a look at that.

Bye
Alex