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authorChristian Kandeler <christian.kandeler@digia.com>2013-06-27 10:57:33 +0200
committerJoerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@digia.com>2013-06-28 10:41:14 +0200
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Re-introduce property qbs.installPrefix.
This property used to exist and was erroneously removed when the "install root" parameter was introduced. The author has now learned that "install prefix" and "install root" are actually orthogonal concepts. Change-Id: I8f704c92d09817063b82a175693899af9adc9bac Reviewed-by: Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@digia.com>
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\endtable
Specifies the installation directory for the files of a product or a \c{Group}. The value of
- this property is a path that is relative to the install root.
+ this property is a path that is relative to \c installPrefix.
+
+ \section1 installPrefix
+
+ \table
+ \row \li \b{Type:} \li \c{string}
+ \row \li \b{Default:} \li \c{empty}
+ \endtable
+ Specifies the global installation prefix. It is implicitly prepended to all values
+ of \c installDir. The \c installPrefix itself is relative to the install root, which is not
+ a property of qbs, but an external installation parameter.
\section1 pathListSeparator