Seems to have done the trick -- many thanks. Mark
________________________________________ From: Jake Farrell [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: installing Thrift DESTDIR works for both php and perl for a custom install location for the clients make install DESTDIR=~/some/path/ For usage on each of the clients please see our wiki page http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftUsage -Jake On Aug 25, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Sammons, Mark wrote: > Well, I'm using the download link on http://thrift.apache.org/download/ for > the .tar.gz bundle. I've tried -- hard -- to navigate the jira page but am > having a hard time finding the list of resolved issues by release version. > There is no indication in the READMEs in the distro I downloaded of whether > additional flags need to be set for perl to be installed to a non-default > location. > > For php, the README says: > > $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/packages/MyPackage/'; > > But this looks more like a way to use thrift php once it is installed. > > If you can point me to additional documentation that specifies these details, > I'd appreciate it; but I also suspect many users would find it helpful if > they were in thrift's READMEs. > > Regards > > Mark > > ________________________________________ > From: Dmitriy Kargapolov [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: installing Thrift > > On 08/25/2011 12:07 PM, Sammons, Mark wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I'm trying to install Thrift v0.7.0 on a linux box running CENTOS 5.6. I >> don't have sudo/root access, so want to install thrift to a non-default >> location. >> >> The perl and php install locations don't appear to be set by the --PREFIX >> config option, and there doesn't appear to be documentation indicating what >> flags or environment variables should be set to override their defaults; >> please either let me know directly or point me to the relevant docs. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mark >> > Wow! > I see number of tickets dedicated to this and already resolved! > THRIFT-534, THRIFT-528, THRIFT-1104.... > Is this still an issue? >
