On 30 Mar 2010, at 03:13, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 30-03-2010 07:19:02 +0200, Markus Duft wrote: >> just to chime in on the movability: i successfully moved whole prefix >> installations to other directories, and they worked fine (hint: i used >> chpathtool to adjust paths) the only limitation is, that the path has to >> be the exact same length (or less long, but that one didn't work for me >> yet, but that could be fixable). of course this is not really >> convenient, but it should be possibly for you to create >> >> "/home/user/prefix-with-long-path1" >> and >> "/cluster/disk25/user/prefix-short" >> >> those would be exchangeable. Of course chpathtool is possibly still not >> perfect, and i observed the one or the other segfault with certain files >> (none of those lately though). However you're free to fix it ;) > > That could match chpathtool's changes that it got recently. Instead of > trying to shorten paths, it now pads them with leading slashes, e.g.: > > original prefix: /path/to/my/long/prefix > target prefix: ////////my/short/prefix > > As a result, the target prefix is always as long as the original prefix, > be it somewhat ugly. We found that this solves misc issues that you get > when you suddenly make a string smaller ;)
Apologies for resurrecting this topic, and I just realised I've probably been confusing chpathtool with chrpath during all previous discussions, but I haven't seen any mention of patchelf. I got the Intel compiler running in a Linux-prefixed-portage last week. // Cheers; Johan
