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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-08-10 13:24:59 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2021-08-10 13:25:15 (GMT) |
| commit | 8706f7a6170577369d7410c111a743986ec26e8f (patch) | |
| tree | 7d3a49bb6796b93a449556cb74fd05ae4358b9c4 /Help/release | |
| parent | 605855ec5f8ad66013196ac8c3768e508b32ffba (diff) | |
| parent | 58d10cf6f13493db124af18e3cac127b2164ea59 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'symlinks-rebase-master'
58d10cf6f1 Alternative symlink-creating mode for file(INSTALL ...)
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Acked-by: Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !6396
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/cmake-install-mode-symlink.rst | 16 |
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diff --git a/Help/release/dev/cmake-install-mode-symlink.rst b/Help/release/dev/cmake-install-mode-symlink.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5f75ca --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/cmake-install-mode-symlink.rst @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +cmake-install-mode-symlink +-------------------------- + +* The :envvar:`CMAKE_INSTALL_MODE` environment variable was added to + allow users to override the default file-copying behavior of + :command:`install` and :command:`file(INSTALL)` into creating + symbolic links. This can aid in lowering storage space requirements + and avoiding redundancy. + +* The :command:`file(INSTALL)` can now be affected / modified by the + :envvar:`CMAKE_INSTALL_MODE` environment variable causing installation + of symbolic links instead of copying of files. + +* The :command:`install` can now be affected / modified by the + :envvar:`CMAKE_INSTALL_MODE` environment variable causing installation + of symbolic links instead of copying of files. |