2010/12/16 Gregory Peele ARA/CFD <gpe...@ara.com>: > Hi all, > > What is the expected behavior is for INSTALL (TARGETS) when the source file > for a particular destination is already at the relevant DESTINATION? For > example, this could happen with a Unix Makefile generator for "LIBRARY > DESTINATION lib" when CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib and > CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY are the same path - the latter having been > set differently than the default of course. > > In practice it seems like this case works fine for all types of targets in > Windows/MSVC generators, and fails only for shared objects in Linux/Unix > Makefiles. It might even only fail for shared objects with SOVERSION > symlinks but I haven't confirmed that yet. The actual shared library is > being deleted at some point after build (leaving a dangling symlink) and > then the INSTALL step fails because its source file is missing.
Would you have an example with file names? For example I have some shared lib with so version and I get (in the build dir)* (1) libCERTId.so -> libCERTId.so.3 (2) libCERTId.so.3 -> libCERTId.so.3.4.1cvs (3) libCERTId.so.3.4.1cvs then I get the same set of files and symlinks in the (separate) install tree. Do you mean that in your case the plain file (3) is deleted ? > Not a big deal for me since this only comes up in very controlled > circumstances in my project that are handled by macros - I skip the TARGETS > install step when this will happen. I'm just curious if this failure is > expected or could be considered a minor bug. My point of view would be that this is a user mistake and the best CMake can do would be to warn about the collision and simply avoid "install onto myself" case. -- Erk Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
