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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-08-30 19:05:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-08-30 19:05:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 952331cded57e2a4293c1d7d78bd5e3b7b0ace9a (patch) | |
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Help: Cross-reference and clarify CMAKE_FIND_NO_INSTALL_PREFIX docs
Suggested-by: Luke Yeager <lukeyeager@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_FIND_NO_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_FIND_NO_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst index c49d264..789dc99 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_FIND_NO_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_FIND_NO_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst @@ -1,15 +1,19 @@ CMAKE_FIND_NO_INSTALL_PREFIX ---------------------------- -Ignore the :variable:`CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` when searching for assets. +Exclude the values of the :variable:`CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` and +:variable:`CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX` variables from +:variable:`CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH`. CMake adds these project-destination +prefixes to :variable:`CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH` by default in order to +support building a series of dependent packages and installing them into +a common prefix. Set ``CMAKE_FIND_NO_INSTALL_PREFIX`` to ``TRUE`` +to suppress this behavior. -CMake adds the :variable:`CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` and the -:variable:`CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX` variable to the -:variable:`CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH` by default. This variable may be set -on the command line to control that behavior. +The :variable:`CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH` is initialized on the first call to a +:command:`project` or :command:`enable_language` command. Therefore one must +set ``CMAKE_FIND_NO_INSTALL_PREFIX`` before this in order to take effect. A +user may set the variable as a cache entry on the command line to achieve this. -Set ``CMAKE_FIND_NO_INSTALL_PREFIX`` to ``TRUE`` to tell -:command:`find_package` not to search in the :variable:`CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` -or :variable:`CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX` by default. Note that the -prefix may still be searched for other reasons, such as being the same prefix -as the CMake installation, or for being a built-in system prefix. +Note that the prefix(es) may still be searched for other reasons, such as being +the same prefix as the CMake installation, or for being a built-in system +prefix. |