[CMake] Looking for a way to do 'make install' to a destination

Remy Chibois rchibois at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 06:36:35 EDT 2010


On Apr 19, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

> It's some times useful to do an install rooted not at '/' but at some
> arbitrary location.  Is there some way of doing this with the GNU
> makefiles generated by cmake?
> 
> Something like auto*'s 'make install DESTDIR=/where/I/want/it'?

Once a project has been configured, "cmake_install.cmake" contains support for it.

I use the following command line to use it:

make -f Makefile DESTDIR=/foo/bar/whatever install

Regards,

-- 
    Rémy



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