DESTDIRΒΆ
This is a CMake Environment Variable. Its initial value is taken from the calling process environment.
On UNIX one can use the DESTDIR
mechanism in order to relocate the
whole installation. DESTDIR
means DESTination DIRectory. It is
commonly used by packagers to install software in a staging directory.
For example, running
make DESTDIR=/package/stage install
will install the software using the installation prefix, e.g. /usr/local
,
prepended with the DESTDIR
value which gives /package/stage/usr/local
.
The packaging tool may then construct the package from the content of the
/package/stage
directory.
See the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
variable to control the
installation prefix when configuring a build tree. Or, when using
the cmake(1)
command-line tool's --install
mode, one may specify a different prefix using the
--prefix
option.
Note
DESTDIR
may not be used on Windows because installation
prefix usually contains a drive letter like in C:/Program Files
which cannot be prepended with some other prefix.