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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-03-26 13:44:57 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-03-29 13:45:27 (GMT) |
| commit | 06171fd7aae5a9a96a5b7e86490fad98807ff458 (patch) | |
| tree | a826c9f7636b4c05989b3245b621540df2d17e0f /Modules | |
| parent | 2a2afe0ae4eeb417583cf3d84ebbcb365973bbe0 (diff) | |
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GNUInstallDirs: Clarify that CMAKE_INSTALL_<dir> may be absolute
Fixes: #21991
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>`` |