[CMake] Documentation for CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT missing?

[David Cole]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Johannes Zarl <Johannes.Zarl at jku.at> wrote:
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> On 03/07/2011 at 23:47, Gabriel Petrovay <gabipetrovay at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Alexander Neundorf
>> <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
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>>> It's an internal variable.
>>
>> May we use it? Or is it not intended for users to use it?
>
> Just bumping this thread up, but I think this is a valid question.
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT is not only widely
> used in projects, but also used in the semi(?)-officially solution
> to setting an install prefix without overwriting user-choices.
>
> If it's internal and we should not use it, quite a number of
> projects will have to be changed...
>

It is internal. But we are aware that many projects are using it. It
is unlikely to change. It would probably be a good idea to document it
officially, even though "it's internal..."


David


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