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use stow to manage 3rd libraries

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introduction

OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04

Download stow from apt.

command lines

Replace xxx with the 3rd library you want to name.

git clone https://github.com/XXX/xxx.git
cd ./xxx/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local/stow/XXX -G Ninja ..
cmake --build . --config Release && sudo cmake --install .

cd /usr/local/stow
sudo stow xxx

cd /usr/local/stow
sudo stow -D xxx

Other

For me, I like to explicitly specify the version of the library. So I name the target directory xxx-{version}.