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

Michael Wild themiwi at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 10:36:43 EDT 2010


On 19. Apr, 2010, at 16:22 , Magnus Therning wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:36, Remy Chibois <rchibois at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
> 
> Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
> 
> Are there other "make-time variables" (as opposed to "configure-time
> variables") that are worth knowing about?  Is there a reference for
> them anywhere?
> 
> /M

make VERBOSE=1

turns on verbose output for "Unix Makefiles" based generators. That's the only ones I know of...

Michael



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