[sldev] [VWR] Cmake standalone build issues

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Wed Sep 3 12:13:06 PDT 2008


Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> 
>>  
>>
>>     4) Install
>>
>>     The only way i can see to achieve this is to patch the build 
>> system as
>>     cmake will not respect the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX if the locations 
>> are an
>>     absolute path.
>>
> If you use absolute paths, then you should use DESTDIR.
> 
> make DESTDIR=/my/special/path
> 
> -Bill
> 
That is:

make DESTDIR=/my/special/path install

-Bill


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