diff --git a/dev-build/cmake/cmake_gui-3.30.5.recipe b/dev-build/cmake/cmake_gui-3.30.5.recipe
index 4ba548164..deeb2d52e 100644
--- a/dev-build/cmake/cmake_gui-3.30.5.recipe
+++ b/dev-build/cmake/cmake_gui-3.30.5.recipe
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates \
 native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment \
 of your choice.
 
-This package provides the GUI version of CMake (cmake-gui)"
+This package provides the GUI version of CMake (cmake-gui). It must be \
+installed in the same prefix as the main cmake package."
 HOMEPAGE="https://cmake.org/"
 COPYRIGHT="2002-2024 Kitware, Inc., Insight Consortium"
 LICENSE="CMake"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="https://cmake.org/files/v${portVersion%.*}/cmake-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="9f55e1a40508f2f29b7e065fa08c29f82c402fa0402da839fffe64a25755a86d"
 SOURCE_DIR="cmake-$portVersion"
@@ -78,11 +79,16 @@ defineDebugInfoPackage cmake_gui$secondaryArchSuffix \
 
 BUILD()
 {
+	# the CMAKE_*_DIR variables should match the definitions in the cmake recipe
 	cmake -Bbuild-gui -S. $cmakeDirArgs \
 		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR=bin \
 		-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebugInfo \
 		-DBUILD_CursesDialog=OFF \
 		-DBUILD_QtDialog=ON \
+		-DCMAKE_DATA_DIR=/$relativeDataDir/cmake \
+		-DCMAKE_DOC_DIR=/$relativeDocumentationDir/packages/cmake \
+		-DCMAKE_MAN_DIR=/$relativeManDir \
+		-DCMAKE_XDGDATA_DIR=/$relativeDataDir \
 		-DCMAKE_USE_SYSTEM_BZIP2=ON \
 		-DCMAKE_USE_SYSTEM_CPPDAP=ON \
 		-DCMAKE_USE_SYSTEM_CURL=ON \