[CMake] cmake and stow: differing installation and runtime locations

[Christoph Groth]

Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> writes:

> On 30. Sep, 2010, at 10:51 , Christoph Groth wrote:
>
>> I was not able to find out how to specify different installation and
>> runtime locations with cmake.
>
> Why must your program know anything about the $HOME prefix? After all,
> it's only symlinked there.

Some packages (e.g. ALPS http://alps.comp-phys.org/) write or even
compile-in the installation path into some of the installed files, for
the package to know where it is installed.

Christoph