It did. Thanks Orion!
On Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 2:48:00 AM UTC+1, elenzil wrote:
>
> should have done a bit more searching first.
>
> looks like the solution may look like this:
>
> * run configure with --prefix set to the target folder,
> and with --disable-shared specified to trigger static linking.
>
> * make clean
>
> * make install
>
> and there you have a portable version of protoc !
>
> sorry for the spam,
> hopefully this will help someone in the future. in the future!
>
> orion
>
>
> On Nov 25, 5:25 pm, elenzil wrote:
> > Howdy!
> >
> > apologies in advance if i ask something meaningless.
> >
> > we have a number of dev-boxes on osx and linux,
> > and would like to simply compile protoc for each platform and include
> > it as part of our project repository,
> > rather than installing it up in the root /usr/local folder.
> > this should simplify the build process for new engineers, and avoid
> > having to sudo.
> >
> > is this feasible ?
> >
> > my approach was going to be to make install to a local folder and then
> > copy that folder into our repo.
> >
> > however when using the --prefix option to ./configure, eg:
> > ./configure --prefix="/tmp/myLocalFolder/protobuf"
> > and then doing make install,
> > i get the error
> > "libtool: install: error: cannot install `libprotoc.la' to a directory
> > not ending in /usr/local/lib".
> >
> > am i attempting something impossible / meaningless / ignorant ?
> >
> > tia,
> > Orion
>
Regards,
Amila
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