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author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-03-30 13:51:18 (GMT) |
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committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2021-03-30 13:52:07 (GMT) |
commit | 6859f55c778ccc7a62a9d8a24eaf6af941b9c716 (patch) | |
tree | 44625ceaf3ed6db4ff9b6fa9253fc6c28631f002 /Modules | |
parent | 986433883607363721111db5e506dc717e305e90 (diff) | |
parent | 06171fd7aae5a9a96a5b7e86490fad98807ff458 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'GNUInstallDirs-doc'
06171fd7aa GNUInstallDirs: Clarify that CMAKE_INSTALL_<dir> may be absolute
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !5947
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules')
-rw-r--r-- | Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake b/Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake index 37869fb..e149f4c 100644 --- a/Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake +++ b/Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake @@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ Inclusion of this module defines the following variables: Destination for files of a given type. This value may be passed to the ``DESTINATION`` options of :command:`install` commands for the - corresponding file type. + corresponding file type. It should typically be a path relative to + the installation prefix so that it can be converted to an absolute + path in a relocatable way (see ``CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_<dir>``). + However, an absolute path is also allowed. ``CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_<dir>`` |