where to install the cmake files to ?

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Feb 16 22:41:40 CET 2006


Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> I think on "make install" the cmake files located under kdelibs/cmake/modules/ 
> should be installed somewhere to a KDE directory so that they can be reused 
> when building other KDE stuff (...kdebase).
> 
> Although probably most of the files located there will be moved back into 
> cmake cvs once they matured a bit more, some will stay in kde svn, e.g. the 
> FindKDE4.cmake and KDE4Macros.cmake files.
> So, where should they be installed to ?
> 
> <kdedir>/share/apps/cmake/modules,
> <kdedir>/share/cmake/modules, 
> 
> something else ?
> 
> I'd probably go with share/cmake/modules/, since cmake install its own files 
> usually also to share/CMake/Modules/.

Not all filesystems are case-sensitive so this might conflict with 
CMake's modules.  Since the modules are KDE-specific modules they should 
go in a KDE-specific place.  Is <kdedir> the installation prefix or does 
it contain a project-specific name like "kde"?

-Brad


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