Jeremy & Don -- Thanks for the info. My Ubuntu box is my Christmas present to myself this year, am I a nerd or what, so I'll have fun playing with it over the weekend. -Paul
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jeremy L. Moles > Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 11:26 AM > To: osg users > Subject: Re: [osg-users] Linux build questions > > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 11:22 -0700, Paul Martz wrote: > > I've just successfully built OSG on my Ubuntu Linux box, and I just > > have a few questions and issues to see whether what I > experienced was > > normal or not. > > > > First, a simple 'make' did not build the examples. I had to 'cd > > examples' and then 'make'. > > COMPILE_EXAMPLES="yes" does the trick for me. > > > Second, INST_EXAMPLES does not appear to be defined by > default. As a > > result, if I do a 'make help', this displays some erroneous > paths when > > talking about where the examples get installed. Apparently, make.sh > > takes the paths as command line arguments, and if > INST_EXAMPLES isn't > > defined, that argument is missing, and the help text displays the > > value of INST_DOC for the examples path, so that's a little odd. > > I've never had to bother with INST_EXAMPLES. The regular > install (if COPMILE_EXAMPLES is set) has always put them in > the same place. Whether that's the "right" place is certainly > up for discussion I'd say. :) > > > Consequently, 'make instlinks' doesn't install the > examples, I have to > > 'make INST_EXAMPLES=<some_path> instlinks' instead. > > > > Is this normal and expected behavior? Can we improve upon it? > > I've attached the script I wrote/use to keep my OSG > up-to-date and built. You may/may not find it useful (just > run it and it'll checkout or update the latest CVS and > build). Although, it doesn't address the issue you bring up > of "Can we improvie upon it?" which I think there is a bit of > room for, particularly regarding the COLLADA stuff, since I'm > not able to find an "install" target in their SVN and so I > put the stuff into place by hand... as such, most folks will > have different ideas about where this belongs. :) > > > Paul Martz > > Skew Matrix Software LLC > > http://www.skew-matrix.com > > 303 859 9466 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osg-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users > > http://www.openscenegraph.org/ > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
