Guilherme Balena Versiani wrote:
> I have a big software distribution with several third-party software
> bundled with it. I use CMake to download these third-party packages,
> unpack, configure and install it temporarily in a CMAKE_BINARY_DIR
> subdir (e.g. ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/dist) -- after this process I compile
> the rest of my software and link it with the bundled libraries. There
> are a lot of symbolic links generated in 'dist' after this process.
>
> Everything works very well until I do 'make install' or 'make package'.
> As I have so many files to install, I just have used:
>
> INSTALL(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/dist/x/ DESTINATION x)
>
> But both the installation and the package have all symbolic links
> removed (substituted by a copy of its targets). There is a way to
> preserve symlinks during the install/package process?
This bug has been reported here:
http://www.cmake.org/Bug/bug.php?op=show&bugid=4384
It's fixed in CVS CMake and is scheduled for merging to the 2.4 release
branch.
-Brad
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