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a4f71b4ba8 Help: Document existence of cmake_install.cmake
fcf64866da Help: move DESTDIR into a separate page

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !1979
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Brad King
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@@ -10,21 +10,7 @@ See :variable:`CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT` for how a
project might choose its own default.
On UNIX one can use the ``DESTDIR`` mechanism in order to relocate the
whole installation. ``DESTDIR`` means DESTination DIRectory. It is
commonly used by makefile users in order to install software at
non-default location. It is usually invoked like this:
::
make DESTDIR=/home/john install
which will install the concerned software using the installation
prefix, e.g. ``/usr/local`` prepended with the ``DESTDIR`` value which
finally gives ``/home/john/usr/local``.
WARNING: ``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.
whole installation. See :envvar:`DESTDIR` for more information.
The installation prefix is also added to :variable:`CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH`
so that :command:`find_package`, :command:`find_program`,