Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] cmake: installation support for git

From: Danh Doan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 00:23:12 +0700

On 2020-04-24 04:01:32+0000, Sibi Siddharthan via GitGitGadget <[email-masked]> wrote:
> From: Sibi Siddharthan <[email-masked]>
> 
> This patch provides the facility to install the built binaries and
> scripts.
> 
> This is very similar to `make install`.
> By default the destination directory(DESTDIR) is /usr/local/ on Linux
> To set a custom installation path do this:
> cmake `relative-path-to-srcdir`
> 	-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`preferred-install-path`
> 
> Then run `make install`
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sibi Siddharthan <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  CMakeLists.txt | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
> index 788b53be873..25de5b5bc35 100644
> --- a/CMakeLists.txt
> +++ b/CMakeLists.txt
> @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ project(git
>  	VERSION ${git_version}
>  	LANGUAGES C)
>  
> +#TODO gitk git-gui gitweb
> +#TODO Add pcre support
>  
>  include(CheckTypeSize)
>  include(CheckCSourceRuns)
> @@ -631,3 +633,50 @@ if(MSGFMT_EXE)
>  	endforeach()
>  	add_custom_target(po-gen ALL DEPENDS ${po_gen})
>  endif()
> +
> +
> +#to help with the install
> +list(TRANSFORM git_shell_scripts PREPEND "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/")
> +list(TRANSFORM git_perl_scripts PREPEND "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/")
> +
> +#install
> +install(TARGETS git git-shell
> +	RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
> +install(PROGRAMS ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/git-cvsserver  #${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/gitk-git/gitk check

check? What does it mean?

> +	DESTINATION bin)
> +
> +list(REMOVE_ITEM PROGRAMS_BUILT git git-shell)
> +install(TARGETS ${PROGRAMS_BUILT}
> +	RUNTIME DESTINATION libexec/git-core)

Ubuntu install exec file to /usr/lib/git-core?

> +
> +set(bin_links
> +	git-receive-pack git-upload-archive git-upload-pack)
> +
> +foreach(b ${bin_links})
> +install(CODE "file(CREATE_LINK ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin/git ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin/${b})")
> +endforeach()
> +
> +install(CODE "file(CREATE_LINK ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin/git ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/libexec/git-core/git)")
> +install(CODE "file(CREATE_LINK ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin/git-shell ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/libexec/git-core/git-shell)")
> +
> +foreach(b ${git_links})
> +	string(REPLACE "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" "" b ${b})
> +	install(CODE "file(CREATE_LINK ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin/git ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/libexec/git-core/${b})")
> +endforeach()
> +
> +foreach(b ${git_http_links})
> +	string(REPLACE "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" "" b ${b})
> +	install(CODE "file(CREATE_LINK  ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/libexec/git-core/git-remote-http ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/libexec/git-core/${b})")
> +endforeach()
> +
> +install(PROGRAMS ${git_shell_scripts} ${git_perl_scripts} ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/git-p4
> +	DESTINATION libexec/git-core)
> +
> +install(DIRECTORY mergetools DESTINATION libexec/git-core)
> +install(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/perl/build/lib/ DESTINATION share/perl5
> +	FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.pm")

I think distro gonna complans about this pattern!

> +install(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/templates/blt/ DESTINATION share/git-core/templates)
> +
> +if(MSGFMT_EXE)
> +	install(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/po/build/locale DESTINATION share)
> +endif()

I thought we want to check for NO_GETTEXT?

-- 
Danh