[CMake] CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR - full path or relative?

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Mon Feb 20 15:59:52 EST 2012


For quite a while, Fedora packages will call cmake with -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR 
set to /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 as appropriate.  Some projects that use this 
convention include plplot, lasi

The relatively new cmake module GNUInstallDirs sets CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR to 
lib or lib64.  Other projects like tkimg appear to use this convention.

A bug has been filed in Fedora due to this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795542

Is this indeed the preferred convention for CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR?  Shall I 
file bugs against plplot, lasi and others to change the usage?

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