diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2486b970c59..063cfc77302 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,8 +21,11 @@ include (cmake/clang_tidy.cmake)
 include (cmake/git.cmake)
 include (cmake/utils.cmake)
 
+# This is needed to set up the CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR variable.
+include (GNUInstallDirs)
+
 # Ignore export() since we don't use it,
-# but it gets broken with a global targets via link_libraries()
+# but it gets broken with global targets via link_libraries()
 macro (export)
 endmacro ()