From 00d4cdc935355656236b04ce28e3f89a852c7dd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brad King Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:32:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Help: Link to GNUInstallDirs from CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (#15246) Add a note to the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX documentation that refers readers to the GNUInstallDirs module to make the latter easier to discover. --- Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst index 72c8d4167..ee9b61566 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst @@ -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.