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

Michael Hertling mhertling at online.de
Fri Apr 23 10:01:19 EDT 2010


On 04/19/2010 04:22 PM, 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?

CMAKE_INSTALL_ALWAYS

<http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables#Environment_Variables>

Regards,

Michael


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