kossebau added a comment.
While myself I have never made use of it, the idea of using a relative path & not an absolute path with the DESTINATION argument is to allow overriding the install prefix at install time. Or in words of https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/command/install.html sa > If a relative path is given it is interpreted relative to the value of the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable. The prefix can be relocated at install time using the DESTDIR mechanism explained in the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable documentation. So given all the other install macros I have seen allow to do that, let's be consistent here and use the relative path as well. I am not aware of any need to use the absolute path here directly. Not tested though due to broken setup currently, so just +1 and no shipit :) REPOSITORY R290 KPackage REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D11675 To: bshah, kossebau Cc: #frameworks, michaelh, ngraham