On 2015-04-29 20:36-0400 David Cole wrote:
It seems like a reasonable feature request to me to ask for
file(GENERATE to support a similar or sub-set of permissions related
options which other file subcommands already provide:
[FILE_PERMISSIONS <permissions>...]
[NO_SOURCE_PERMISSIONS] [USE_SOURCE_PERMISSIONS]
Doesn't seem like it should be that hard to add support incrementally
for that feature...
I did notice those options for file(COPY...) and making those
available for file(GENERATE...) as well sounds like a good idea in
general.
However, until that is implemented (or configure_file(GENERATE ...) is
implemented with the usual configure_file permission semantics which
just copies the permissions of the source file) I need a method of
setting file permissions at generate time. Is there currently _any_
way to do that under CMake?
If the answer is "no", then for now I am going to have to use some
ugly permission fixups at build time for a use case (configured
executable script that needs to know the location of a different
executable in the build tree) that is likely not that uncommon. So
either I am missing some obvious method of setting permissions at
generate-time or other projects with that use case have likely been
sticking with CMP0026 OLD. I don't plan to go back to CMP0026 OLD
myself since the argument for possible location bugs for that case
make sense to me. At the same time though, I think it is fair to say
CMP0026 NEW has certainly not been a smooth experience for me.
Alan
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