On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM Aoife Moloney via devel-announce
<devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Wiki - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CMake_drop_install_vars
> Discussion thread -
> https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f42-change-proposal-cmake-drop-non-standard-variables-system-wide/148864
>
> This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
> This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
> process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
> community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
> by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.
>
> == Summary ==
>
> Drop variables that are not standardized by CMake in the `%cmake`
> macro. The dropped options are`-DINCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR`,
> `-DLIB_INSTALL_DIR`, `-DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR`, `-DSHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX`
> and `-DLIB_SUFFIX`.  Affected projects are tracked in
> [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/lecris/cmake-drop_vars/ this
> copr repo], please check if your packages are failing there.
>
> == Owner ==
>
> * Name: [[User:lecris| Cristian Le]]
> * Email: fed...@lecris.me
>
>
> == Detailed Description ==
>
> The variables `*_INSTALL_DIR`, `SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX` and `LIB_SUFFIX`
> have been passed by default in the `%cmake` macro, however these
> variables have never been standardized by CMake, and thus the
> definition and usage of these variables is up to the individual
> project, e.g. it is unclear if `INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR` is meant to be
> the absolute or relative path.
>
> Since CMake 3.0, the standardized installation path is defined in
> `GNUInstallDirs` and many distributions and packaging environment have
> been defining their standards in that module. Upstream projects should
> be migrating to this standard instead.
>

Shouldn't this be targeted at Fedora Linux 43?



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