Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
On 1/27/06, Damitha Kumarage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
deploy is just a sample directory in our source tree to represent
the install directory. When we do make install in source it is
installed in the path specified as configure prefix...
+1 for keeping the prefix approach. IMHO, the ideal installation
would look like the following, which will make axis2 not look out of
the place among other well established C programs.
- User sets the --prefix, which defaults to /usr/local/, but software
distributions (RPM, DPKG, emerge etc) make it default to /usr. lib/,
include/ and bin/ should be created inside prefix.
- Libraries (*.so, *.la and *.a files) *should* be installed to lib/
directory inside prefix. If prefix is /usr/local/, then this will be
/usr/local/lib/.
- The best names for the axis 2 library would be libaxis2.la,
libaxis2.a, libaxis2.so. If it is defined as lib_LTLIBRARIES =
libaxis2.la, everything else should be looked after properly. With
the default prefix, you will get /usr/local/lib/libaxis2.{a,la,so}.
None of the C libraries I have seen have a "_deployment" part... ;-)
- Header files *should* go into include/ directory inside prefix. But
since the number of header files are large and as they are specific to
axis2, general practice is to create a subdirectory (just go through
/usr/include/ to see how true this is). So, the best option is to
install them into include/axis2/. If the same can be done to the
source tree (move include/*.h into include/axis2/, test programs will
find it easy).
+1 to have include/axis2
- Test programs are generally not installed. A typical installation
true, instead we should install our samples. isn't it?
should look like:
./configure
make
make test # optional
make install
make clean # optional
Running make can build test programs, but make test can look after
running them and see if they really work.
I guesss make test can run all our unit tests and system tests and
verify that
everything is ok. If that is so let's do it ASAP which will make the
life so much
easy :)
thanks
damitha
Anuradha
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