+FIND_PACKAGE(Py2cpp REQUIRED)
+
+# SalomeKERNEL can be useful in order to define SALOME_INSTALL directories and
+# for using salome test, but it is not a c++ dependency.
+FIND_PACKAGE(SalomeKERNEL NO_MODULE)
+
+IF(NOT SalomeKERNEL_FOUND)
+ MESSAGE("SalomeKERNEL not found. Salome installation paths will not be used")
+ENDIF()
+
+IF(NOT DEFINED SALOME_INSTALL_PYTHON)
+ EXECUTE_PROCESS ( COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c
+ "from distutils import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_python_lib(plat_specific=True, prefix='${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}'))"
+ OUTPUT_VARIABLE _ABS_PYTHON_MODULE_PATH
+ RESULT_VARIABLE _PYTHON_pythonlib_result
+ OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE )
+
+ IF (_PYTHON_pythonlib_result)
+ MESSAGE (SEND_ERROR "Could not set SALOME_INSTALL_PYTHON!")
+ ENDIF ()
+ GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(_ABS_PYTHON_MODULE_PATH
+ ${_ABS_PYTHON_MODULE_PATH} ABSOLUTE)
+ FILE(RELATIVE_PATH SALOME_INSTALL_PYTHON
+ ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} ${_ABS_PYTHON_MODULE_PATH})
+ENDIF(NOT DEFINED SALOME_INSTALL_PYTHON)
+
+IF(NOT DEFINED SALOME_INSTALL_BINS)
+ SET(SALOME_INSTALL_BINS "bin")
+ENDIF()
+IF(NOT DEFINED SALOME_INSTALL_LIBS)
+ SET(SALOME_INSTALL_LIBS "lib")
+ENDIF()
+IF(NOT DEFINED SALOME_INSTALL_HEADERS)
+ SET(SALOME_INSTALL_HEADERS "include")
+ENDIF()
+IF(NOT DEFINED SALOME_INSTALL_CMAKE)
+ SET(SALOME_INSTALL_CMAKE "lib/cmake/ydefx")
+ENDIF()
+
+SET(SALOME_INSTALL_PYTHON "${SALOME_INSTALL_PYTHON}" CACHE PATH "Path to install Python files")
+SET(SALOME_INSTALL_BINS "${SALOME_INSTALL_BINS}" CACHE PATH "Path to install binary files")
+SET(SALOME_INSTALL_LIBS "${SALOME_INSTALL_LIBS}" CACHE PATH "Path to install libraries")
+SET(SALOME_INSTALL_HEADERS "${SALOME_INSTALL_HEADERS}" CACHE PATH "Path to install headers")
+SET(SALOME_INSTALL_CMAKE "${SALOME_INSTALL_CMAKE}" CACHE PATH "Path to install cmake configuration files")
+
+# there are some problems if the configuration tools are included before the
+# detection of py2cpp and SalomeKERNEL