On 30. Sep, 2010, at 10:51 , Christoph Groth wrote: > Dear cmake experts, > > I like to use GNU stow to install self-compiled packages on my system. > For this to work best, I have to be able to specify during package > configuration a different runtime location (the directory prefix the > package will "think" it is installed to) and installation location (the > directory prefix which will be actually used for installation). > > This way I can install all the package files under the prefix > $HOME/stow/package-name and then tell stow to make symlinks to the > runtime location (prefix $HOME). > > This procedure allows easy removal and replacement of packages. > > I was not able to find out how to specify different installation and > runtime locations with cmake. Any hints are warmly appreciated. > > Thanks > Christoph
Why must your program know anything about the $HOME prefix? After all, it's only symlinked there... Michael -- There is always a well-known solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken
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