[CMake] How do I get ExternalProject_Add to install libs/programs with sudo access

Gonzalo Garramuño ggarra13 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 23 21:44:16 EDT 2019


El 23/6/19 a las 19:21, Ruben Di Battista escribió:
> If I’m not mistaken, you should be able to change the install prefix 
> using the CMAKE_ARGS option in the Configure step.
>     CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<INSTALL_DIR> -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS='-g'

Thanks, Ruben.  I am familiar with this.  I was hoping to have a way of 
installing in /usr/local, by having cmake/ninja call a sudo ninja 
install and then leaving the terminal to type in the password.

But I guess this is not possible, and I'll have to install somewhere else.

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