On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:27:45 -0500 (CDT), Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > One Issue [which might be mac specific] with DESTDIR is: 'make > install' does 'make shared' at the dest dir. > > I'm assuming - one of the reasons for this is: .dylib on Macs hardcode > some location info. If so - DESTDIR won't work on Mac [with > sharedlibs?]. If not - there is no need to do 'make shared' during > 'make install'? [Barry?]
This sounds like exactly the same issue as with RPATH. If you have any location-specific info in the libraries, then "make shared" should RPATH the PREFIX despite installing to DESTDIR. Apologies if this was obvious. Jed
