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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-11-12 08:32:01 -0500
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-11-12 08:32:01 -0500
commit00d4cdc935355656236b04ce28e3f89a852c7dd5 (patch)
tree2f358231a286a7705ecf59f15f695dbacda01a73
parent54ff77dc621a91302abad0ab38d9bd26de8914b9 (diff)
downloadcmake-00d4cdc935355656236b04ce28e3f89a852c7dd5.tar.gz
Help: Link to GNUInstallDirs from CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (#15246)
Add a note to the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX documentation that refers readers to the GNUInstallDirs module to make the latter easier to discover.
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diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst
index 72c8d4167b..ee9b61566d 100644
--- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst
+++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.rst
@@ -27,3 +27,8 @@ which cannot be prepended with some other prefix.
The installation prefix is also added to CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH so
that find_package, find_program, find_library, find_path, and
find_file will search the prefix for other software.
+
+.. note::
+
+ Use the :module:`GNUInstallDirs` module to provide GNU-style
+ options for the layout of directories within the installation.