[cmake-developers] CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX vs CMAKE_SYSROOT ?

[Brad King]

On 7/8/2013 11:22 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Brad King wrote:
>> or do you mean that CMAKE_HOST_INSTALL_PREFIX, if defined at all,
>> completely replaces CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX for all install rules?
> 
> Yes for install rules, but with some exceptions I think when used in 
> calculations.
> 
> For things like the logic in 
> 
>  cmExportInstallFileGenerator::GenerateMainFile
> 
> about the relocatable-/usr/lib-stuff, I think CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX should 
> still be used.

...because it will be the actual prefix when loaded on the target,
right?  What if one loads the target library from another project
on the host?

-Brad