build: Be careful about default installation directory #1421
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Use a cmake idiom so that you need an explicit -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX= in order to write over /usr/local or any potentially sensitive area. In the absence of this being set explicitly, it will configure the cmake build so that an "install" ends up in ./dist (which is what the Makefile wrapper did all along). Signed-off-by: Larry Gritz <[email protected]>
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Use a cmake idiom so that you need an explicit -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=
in order to write over /usr/local or any potentially sensitive area.
In the absence of this being set explicitly, it will configure the
cmake build so that an "install" ends up in ./dist (which is what the
Makefile wrapper did all along).
Signed-off-by: Larry Gritz [email protected]