On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Daniel Nelson <tor...@connect2.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 April 2010 10:37:54 pm Michael Wild wrote: > > On 8. Apr, 2010, at 3:39 , Ryan Pavlik wrote: > > > You might consider just setting the EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL property on > specific > > > targets, instead of an entire subdirectory. > > > > > > Ryan > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Daniel Nelson <tor...@connect2.com> > wrote: > > >> If I use add_subdirectory with the EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL option, then any > > >> files whose install commands are in that directory are not installed > as > > >> part of 'make install'. Is this on purpose, and if so is there a way > I > > >> can install these files? > > >> -- > > >> Daniel > > > > Also there is the OPTIONAL argument to the INSTALL command which might be > > of help here. > > > > > > Michael > > > > This is probably a pretty good workaround, but it's not ideal because I > have > several projects that add this directory, and I only want it to be excluded > for some of them. So I'll end up needing to use a variable in the parent > directory to control the EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL property. Then I need to use the > OPTIONAL argument to prevent errors if I haven't built the directory, which > means I won't be notified if a file is missing. > > What I'd really like to be able to do, is add new targets, and then > manually > set them to depend on whichever install commands I want. Then I could just > run: make install/my_exclude_from_all_project. But it seems that the > install > commands are outside of the target system. > > Why not use the COMPONENT feature of the various install command signatures to separate your installables into components...? Then you can run: cd binary_dir cmake -D COMPONENT=MyComponent -P cmake_install.cmake and that will run just the install rules associated with the COMPONENT MyComponent... You could even add a custom target named "install_my_component" to do this via "make install_my_component" if you like... HTH, David
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