Build: use GNUInstallDirs CMake module to create directory paths #300
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Description
Instead of defining manually certain install paths, use the standard (since 3.0) CMake module GNUInstallDirs to derive them. This is cross-platform and offers an automatic integration on distributions customizations (ie. when certain distribution system-wide define a specific place where to install stuff).
See also: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/module/GNUInstallDirs.html
The goal is to make the build more modern and software easy to deploy in any distribution.
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