On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 10:01 -0800, Jim Lloyd wrote:
> I have a criticism of one aspect of installation. I would like to be able to
> have multiple installs of activemq-cpp, and then switch between them by
> changing one symlink, and then rebuilding my source tree. Currently my
> makefiles define the include path for activemq-cpp like this:
>
> -I/nas/local/activemq-cpp-2.2.3/include/activemq-cpp-2.2.3 \
I'm assuming that the first reference to 2.2.3 comes from how you
configured the build, as in
./configure --prefix=/nas/local/activemq-cpp-2.2.3
Is that right?
>
> Note that the version number must appear twice. If it only appeared in the
> root directory, and not again in the include directory, then I could do
> something like this:
>
> -I/nas/local/activemq-cpp/include/activemq-cpp
>
> Now the directory /nas/local/activemq-cpp could be a symlink to
> /nas/local/activemq-cpp-2.2.3
>
> Note that APR and APR-UTIL seem to do the right thing. They include a
> version number on the directory below include, but only the major version
> number is given on that directory:
>
> -I/nas/local/apr/include/apr-1 \
> -I/nas/local/apr-util/include/apr-1 \
>
> For those two, I can have symlinks 'apr -> apr-1.3.3' and 'apr-util ->
> apr-util-1.3.4'.
>
> Can we change activemq-cpp configuration&installation so that it uses the
> same convention? I'd like my makefiles to define the include path like this:
--
Tim Bish
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