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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-11-12 13:32:01 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-11-12 13:32:01 (GMT)
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Help: Link to GNUInstallDirs from CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (#15246)
Add a note to the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX documentation that refers readers to the GNUInstallDirs module to make the latter easier to discover.
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@@ -27,3 +27,8 @@ which cannot be prepended with some other prefix.
The installation prefix is also added to CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH so
that find_package, find_program, find_library, find_path, and
find_file will search the prefix for other software.
+
+.. note::
+
+ Use the :module:`GNUInstallDirs` module to provide GNU-style
+ options for the layout of directories within the installation.