I’m working on an application which consists of many different components
surrounding a common core. We ship multiple products from the same source tree
by adding and/or removing components from the output application directory.
Using CMake’s install system in this environment is proving difficult. I’ve
managed to set things up so that all components are installed to the same
place, which is fine for development but not suitable for testing or shipping.
A proper solution would install only the components needed for an individual
application.
The new EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL option for the install command overcomes one of the
biggest hurdles to reaching that goal. I can now add that option to every
install command, generate a list of component names, and add a custom target
for each application which invokes CMake and has it install only the relevant
components.
The problem now is that I can only install one component at a time, and that
invoking CMake 200+ times to install them all individually is unacceptably slow.
Looking at the install scripts CMake generates I see lines like this:
> if("${CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENT}" STREQUAL "foobar" OR NOT
> CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENT)
The install process would become much more flexible if STREQUAL were changed to
IN_LIST. As far as I can see this change: a) has no performance penalty when
the component value isn’t a list and b) would be backwards compatible unless an
individual component name contained a semicolon (which seems an unlikely
scenario).
What do the developers think?
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