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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-04-23 14:17:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2018-04-23 14:17:42 (GMT) |
| commit | 3d6bedb9038f5f39278ce2bfdd7d6713ddd50269 (patch) | |
| tree | cda075e71eaaf43742291c9219d627c7e9317170 /Help/variable | |
| parent | ba234392b1ca82549d57488f18e2ab622019d8f6 (diff) | |
| parent | a4f71b4ba8204c7e4a70057af131170165605288 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'cmake-install-doc'
a4f71b4ba8 Help: Document existence of cmake_install.cmake
fcf64866da Help: move DESTDIR into a separate page
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !1979
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst | 16 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst index 7bd87d6..02ba645 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst @@ -10,21 +10,7 @@ See :variable:`CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT` for how a project might choose its own default. On UNIX one can use the ``DESTDIR`` mechanism in order to relocate the -whole installation. ``DESTDIR`` means DESTination DIRectory. It is -commonly used by makefile users in order to install software at -non-default location. It is usually invoked like this: - -:: - - make DESTDIR=/home/john install - -which will install the concerned software using the installation -prefix, e.g. ``/usr/local`` prepended with the ``DESTDIR`` value which -finally gives ``/home/john/usr/local``. - -WARNING: ``DESTDIR`` may not be used on Windows because installation -prefix usually contains a drive letter like in ``C:/Program Files`` -which cannot be prepended with some other prefix. +whole installation. See :envvar:`DESTDIR` for more information. The installation prefix is also added to :variable:`CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH` so that :command:`find_package`, :command:`find_program`, |