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Instead of listing the CPack configuration settings in CMakeCPack.cmake as we have done for simplicity, we could have placed the per-generator settings of CPACK_* variables in a separate file, such as CMakeCPackOptions.cmake, and included these settings into CMakeCPack.cmake using set(CPACK_PROJECT_CONFIG_FILE "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeCPackOptions.cmake"). This file can also be configured at CMake time and then included at CPack time, providing a clean way to configure multi-format package generators (see also: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.6/module/CPack.html).
As with all tools in the CMake family, CPack is powerful and versatile and offers much more flexibility and options than what we have shown in this recipe. The ...
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