Thanks Darryl, that makes sense. Phil
On 30 January 2013 15:00, Darryl L. Pierce <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 02:53:17PM +0000, Phil Harvey wrote: > > I've been looking at where "make install" writes files to, and came > across > > something that seems like a wrinkle. I'd like to get views on whether > it's > > worth fixing. > > > > You can control the destination of most files using the > > CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX property. However, it looks like the bindings > > CMakeLists.txt files don't respect this. > > > > For example, the Python bindings are installed to wherever the Python > > expression "get_python_lib" evaluates to. It looks like the Perl > bindings > > use a similarly non-overrideable location. > > > > This is a minor irritation because I'd like to test "make install" > without > > affecting shared folders under /usr. I'll raise a Jira to fix this... > > unless there are any objections? > > We had a discussion on the list a while back about this topic [1]. The > decision was that we would install language bindings into locations > specified by the individual language environments. If you want to > install things to a separate location, you need to set the DESTDIR > variable when running "making install" in order to install the entire > set to an alternate location. > > [1] > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/qpid-proton/201212.mbox/%3CJIRA.12623970.1355492653982.7193.1355492773169@arcas%3E > > -- > Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. > Delivering value year after year. > Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. > http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ > >
