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0009661

CMake

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2009-10-04 22:51

2014-06-02 08:37

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Benoit Jacob

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Bill Hoffman

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feature

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0009661: Please add --prefix and other shorthand cmdline args

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Dear CMake Developers,

It would be most convenient if CMake took some command-line arguments that acted as shortcuts to set some commonly used variables.

The most obvious example is CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. The current solution of requiring users to do

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=path ...

is a bit heavy, so please consider adding --prefix as a special shortcut for that, so one could simply do:

cmake --prefix=path ...

(Just taking the old ./configure syntax as an example here, I'm not specially attached to it).

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0004194

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Bill Hoffman

support configure compatible command line flags

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(0035987) Robert Maynard (manager) 2014-06-02 08:37	Closing resolved issues that have not been updated in more than 4 months.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2009-10-04 22:51	Benoit Jacob	New Issue
2009-10-04 23:10	Bill Hoffman	Status	new => assigned
2009-10-04 23:10	Bill Hoffman	Assigned To	=> Bill Hoffman
2013-11-02 10:24	Stephen Kelly	Relationship added	duplicate of 0004194
2013-11-02 10:24	Stephen Kelly	Status	assigned => resolved
2013-11-02 10:24	Stephen Kelly	Resolution	open => duplicate
2014-06-02 08:37	Robert Maynard	Note Added: 0035987
2014-06-02 08:37	Robert Maynard	Status	resolved => closed