Re: [Plplot-devel] DESTDIR needs to be used for install(CODE... ?

[Orion P. <or...@co...>]

On 01/07/2013 12:57 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> To Andrew and Orion:
>
> One of my testers for ephcom is David Howells who works as a developer
> for RedHat.  He found that rpm's for ephcom that he implemented could
> not be built without using DESTDIR for all install(CODE logic in the
> ephcom build system.  For example ephcom's doc/CMakeLists.txt file now
> has this code fragment (which was originally copied without DESTDIR
> from doc/CMakeLists.txt in PLplot).
>
> doc/CMakeLists.txt:  install(CODE "message(STATUS \"Installing:
> ${DOC_DIR}/doxygen/html tree\")\nexecute_process(COMMAND
> ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory
> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/doxygen/html
> ${DESTDIR}${CMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR}/doxygen/html)")
>
> Do you agree that DESTDIR should also be used in the equivalent PLplot
> file?  How have you guys been getting around this potential issue
> for Debian and Fedora packaging of PLplot?

I really don't think you ever want to specify ${DESTDIR} in *any* cmake 
scripts.  cmake will automatically do the right things behind the scenes 
to handle DESTDIR.


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