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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-11-12 14:35:43 (GMT)
committerCMake Topic Stage <kwrobot@kitware.com>2014-11-12 14:35:43 (GMT)
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Merge topic 'doc-CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX-link-GNUInstallDirs'
00d4cdc9 Help: Link to GNUInstallDirs from CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (#15246)
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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.