From kde-buildsystem Mon Feb 20 17:26:30 2012 From: Parker Coates Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:26:30 +0000 To: kde-buildsystem Subject: Re: GZipping files at build time Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-buildsystem&m=132981636611811 On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:08, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2012, Parker Coates wrote: >> Hello Build System Experts, >> >> Within the KDEGames project we would like to gzip compress some files >> at build-time, and I am coming to you folks for suggestions. >> >> Can CMake do this for us? (I don't think so, but I'm not certain. >> Maybe CPack?) Is any other part of KDE currently gzipping at >> build-time? If so, can we reuse this solution? > > What do you want to compress ? Just individual files or directories or ? Sorry, I probably should have mentioned that in my original email. We want to compress SVG files to SVGZ files. A SVGZ file is just a single SVG file that's been gzip compressed. >> The obvious approach is to add a build-time dependency on the gzip >> executable, but this might be a pain on non-Unix platforms. Of course, > > Try cmake -E tar ... > This exists for this purpose. Unfortunately, tarballs won't work for this purpose. Thanks, Parker PS: Thanks for CCing me. I'm not subscribed. _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list Kde-buildsystem@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem