However, CMake sucks in terms of installation paths. Ever tried installing a library into a libdir other than ${prefix}/lib? In the worst case, the developer tries to "fix" this by guessing the architecture and append a magical 64. This works on some distributions but of course not all of them.

I got sick and tired of this situation and wrote a small CMake module [1] that accepts standard configure options to determine the installation path.

[1] http://bloerg.net/2013/10/29/turning-cmake-into-a-good-unix-...