Awesome! on linux copying the scripts can be relatively slow and not necessary when recompiling, so this is also an added convenience for those of us who are incredibly impatient ;)
Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 09:12:57 +0000 > From: Campbell Barton <[email protected]> > Subject: [Bf-committers] CMake Build Changes > To: bf-blender developers <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Writing to notify of some changes I plan to make to CMake build system > soon (this week). > > The main change is that the install target will be used so "make > install" is needed to copy scripts, python etc into CMake's bin/ > directory. > > *** Only continue reading if your interested in WHY *** > > At the moment we are using system copy commands which don't give good > control, at the moment files are copied then find is used to remove > for eg, on windows .svn dirs are copied. > > The install target gives a more useful options for copying, with > correct permissions, creates dirs automatic and this is generally how > installation is expected to be done. > Currently we have a non-standard WITH_INSTALL option, once the install > target is used correctly this isn't needed, devs can just not bother > with 'make install' if they run blender from the source dir. > > On Unix/Linux (but not Apple), there is still the case where you can > either do a portable install or a system install into /usr/bin/, > /usr/share/blender... etc. > For this case I've added an option WITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE, Enabled by > default, when disabled the files will be installed into the system > directories. > > I can test this for linux/win32-mingw/win32-msvc but not apple so to > start with I'll leave this configuration as-is and get a apple user to > test before applying these changes. > > This isn't a big task but writing since it changes how CMake builds work. > -- > - Campbell > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > End of Bf-committers Digest, Vol 80, Issue 12 > ********************************************* > -- Ian Johnson http://enja.org _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
