specifying the type prevents cmake to converthing the paths relative to the CWD cmake documentation: Furthermore, if the <type> is PATH or FILEPATH and the <value> provided on the command line is a relative path, then the set command will treat the path as relative to the current working directory and convert it to an absolute path.
BUILD STYLES ============ These shell snippets provide support for multiple build systems, i.e GNU configure, CMake, etc. A build style file must provide at least the following functions: - do_configure - do_build - do_install If a source package defines its own do_xxx() function, the function defined in the build style file is simply ignored.