[cmake-developers] Unix Makefiles under MSys

[Bill Hoffman]

On 5/17/2013 12:54 PM, Sean Farrell wrote:
> This entire thing is basically just confusing. The obvious workaround is
> to call cmake with -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local. It would be
> nice if the behavior would be in line with real Unix makefiles. As a
> middle ground, the default could still fallback on %ProgramFiles% if the
> variables are not set.
>
Yes, that would work.  So, we are talking about the default value for 
the install prefix.  Of course this is different for different projects. 
  However, maybe MSYS makefiles should default to /usr/local since that 
is more of a unix like environment.  People would expect that the msys 
build does that.

-Bill