On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:12 PM, David Lonie <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm attempting to build a relocatable avogadro installation, and I'm
>> having trouble with OpenBabel's plugin handling. The trouble seems to
>> be that OpenBabel hardcodes the absolute plugin directory into
>> babelconfig.h, and when I move the installation, the plugins aren't
>> found, and it crashes.
>>
>> I also tried building static OB, and the compilation fails the
>> genbankformat.cpp.
>>
>> I know there have been relocatable builds of OB in the past, can
>> anyone share their tricks? ;-)
>>
> In Avogadro we set the environment variables for Open Babel (can be
> seen in the code for main I believe). This allows you to ask Qt for
> the location, and then figure out the relative path for OpenBabel.
Trouble is, the plugin path is hardcoded (and absolute!):
plugin.cpp: OBPlugin::LoadAllPlugins:
------------------------------------------------
...
DLHandler::getConvDirectory(TargetDir); // < This fetches the path
vector<string> files;
if(!DLHandler::findFiles(files,DLHandler::getFormatFilePattern(),TargetDir)) {
return;
}
...
dlhandler_unix.cpp:
------------------------------------------------
bool DLHandler::getConvDirectory(string& convPath)
{
string testPath;
testPath += OB_MODULE_PATH; // defined in src/config.h.cmake -> babelconfig.h
convPath = testPath;
return true;
}
babelconfig.h:
------------------------------------------------
#define OB_MODULE_PATH "/usr/lib/openbabel/2.3.90"
So it doesn't look like this can be adjusted via an env var.
Dave
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