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Expand Up @@ -115,8 +115,10 @@ cd build
-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR="doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION" \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_INFODIR=info \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR=man \
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If a relative path is given for any of these variables, the computed installation path is relative to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, as documented in /usr/share/cmake-*/Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake.

-DLIB_SUFFIX=${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
-DMAN_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/man \
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This is perhaps more contentious. Sourcegraph suggests that the built-in CMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR is much more widely used than MAN_INSTALL_DIR - 9.2k results vs 1.5k. I'd say MAN_INSTALL_DIR should be defined for projects that don't use the built-in variable.

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
make install/strip DESTDIR=$PKG
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