On 2006-11-01 10:59-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> Hi Orion:
>>
>> This bad octave version number is due to a too-specific regex (assuming
>> double digits for the final number) which I have now fixed in CVS. Could
>> you please try again?
>
> Works with the latest CVS.
Orion, I am glad octave-2.9.x is working for you for our CBS. Per, now that
this regex issue is solved, I hope you have similar success with
octave-2.9.x on Mac OS X.
>
>
> Next *BIG* issue - x86_64 libraries are installed in /usr/lib, not
> /usr/lib64. KDE seems to have adopted the convention of defining
> "LIB_SUFFIX" to "64" on 64-bit platforms. You may need to take a look
> at their cmake scripts to see how it is done.
I presume you are talking about the location where the PLplot build is
installed (rather than a problem with some other package's install
location), and you need PLplot to install just the libraries in /usr/lib64.
Actually, that's something that is simple to solve.
Right now, the PLplot install location is controlled just with a single
prefix (set with just the cmake user option CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX). Then
/lib, /share, and so forth are appended automatically to that prefix in
cmake/modules/instdirs.cmake.
This is overly simplistic, and I think it would be a good thing to mimic
the additional prefixes that autotools has. Here is the documentation
for them (from ./configure --help):
Installation directories:
--prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
[/usr/local]
--exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
[PREFIX]
By default, `make install' will install all the files in
`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/lib' etc. You can specify
an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' using `--prefix',
for instance `--prefix=$HOME'.
For better control, use the options below.
Fine tuning of the installation directories:
--bindir=DIR user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
--sbindir=DIR system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
--libexecdir=DIR program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
--datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data [PREFIX/share]
--sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
--sharedstatedir=DIR modifiable architecture-independent data [PREFIX/com]
--localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
--libdir=DIR object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
--includedir=DIR C header files [PREFIX/include]
--oldincludedir=DIR C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
--infodir=DIR info documentation [PREFIX/info]
--mandir=DIR man documentation [PREFIX/man]
This should be completely straightforward (an hour's work, maybe) to set up in
cmake/modules/instdirs.cmake as cached variables set to the above defaults
but modifiable by the user.
Once implemented, then your particular need above would be satisfied by
-Dlibdir='/usr/lib64'. Orion, is that the fine-grained control of install
locations that you had in mind? If so, it may be several days before I can
get to it so I would be happy to accept a patch from you if you want to deal
with it earlier.
Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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