On 2007-10-29 15:20-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I plan to post to the CMake list asking why rpath is not being set in either > the build tree or install tree for the Cygwin platform.
Here was the definitive answer from Bill Hoffman: "There is no such thing as RPATH on windows or cygwin. Basically on windows/cygwin you have to have the shared libraries or dll's in the same directory as the executables. The only RPATH of sorts on windows is that "." is in the PATH. Other than that, users have to put directories with dll's in the PATH explicitly." So to do a comprehensive ctest in the build tree you will have to add a whole slew of different directories (the src directory location in the build tree as well as bindings/c++, bindings/f77, bindings/f95, etc.) to your PATH. OTOH, in the install tree you should remove all the build tree locations in the PATH and add just one install tree location (e.g., $prefix/lib) to the PATH. Hope that explanation helps, and that one of you with access to a Cygwin platform will put the explanation in the Cygwin part of wiki (along with your other updated Cygwin comments) so we don't have to guess next time the question of rpath on Cygwin comes up. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
