That's not what Chandan wants to achieve. He wants to have a suffix appended to every executable being installed, so he can have different versions installed and select among them through the suffix. Think gcc-4.4, gcc-4.6 and gcc-4.7 being present on your system.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:27 AM, J Decker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Michael Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:20 AM, J Decker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Chandan Choudhury >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Dear cmake users, >>>> >>>> I am very new to cmake. I really find it interesting. I installed >>>> gromacs (4.6.1) with it. One simple query regarding its usage is, how do I >>>> add program suffix to the executables created. >>>> >>>> >>> SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES( <target> PROPERTIES >>> SUFFIX ".different.suffix" ) >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Chandan >>>> >>> >> IMHO this is not they way to go about this problem if you're not the >> developer of the software... It might be the last resort if the developers >> were not careful enough to allow users to override the program suffix, but >> IMHO this should be configurable through the cache. >> >> Sure; but should be implemented on a per target basis, and certainly not > globally. I've had great success just chaining other CMake based projects > into my builds, if they don't do rude things like set global library > suffixes that end up propagating through previuosly working projects. > > >> Michael >> >> >
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