[CMake] Re: cmake 2.2: make install PREFIX not working with CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX set to "/"

[Michael Biebl]

I forgot to add:
Removing
SET(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX / CACHE INTERNAL "")
and running
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/
works fine.


On 4/10/06, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> With cmake 2.2 I get a very strange behaviour.
> I use the following statement in my toplevel CMakeLists.txt file:
> SET(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX / CACHE INTERNAL "")
> because I want to install the binaries to /sbin, /bin etc. by default.
> A make install works fine, but if I run "make install
> DESTDIR=/tmp/test" I get the following error message:
>
> FILE called with network path DESTINATION. This does not make sense
> when using DESTDIR. Specify local absolute path or remove DESTDIR
> environment variable.
> make: *** [install] Fehler 255
>
> It seems that cmake doesn't like PATHS starting with two slashes:
> //bin. One coming from CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX and the other from
> INSTALL_TARGET(/bin ...)
> Am I doing something wrong here? I seems to work with cmake-2.3.4 though.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>