Yeehaw! That fixes my problem. Thanks, Alan. Jerry On Mar 7, 2007, at 8:30 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2007-03-07 18:36-0700 Jerry wrote: > >> I actually thought I did the right thing when I installed 5.7.2. But >> for a sanity check I just re-did everything from scratch with the >> same results. >> >> I made a new directory at /usr/local/plplot_run_ccmake_from_here and >> cd-ed to it and ran ccmake from there. From ccmake, I specified >> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to be /usr/local/plplot-5.7.2. > > Sorry about this problem which by coincidence also came up today > for libLASi > (which has a similar install location system). I have just made a > change > for both projects so this bad human-engineering issue should be > eliminated. > > The short story is if you start with a clean source tree and > initially empty > (separate) build tree (so no stale files from previous builds are > hanging > around) then cmake or ccmake with the command-line option > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=whatever always works fine. However, > inconsistencies > in install locations can occur, if you have a stale cache hanging > around or > if you do not specify the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX option when invoking > ccmake, and you attempt to change CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX from the > ccmake GUI > instead. > > What happens internally is that the value of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX > is cached > and its also taken as the _default_ value of the install prefix for > every > other install location variable before they are cached as well. > Once they > are cached, then ccmake gives you the opportunity to change them to > something else, but if you don't specify the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX > option > for the ccmake command, then the cached values will all refer to / > usr/local, > and will _all_ have to be changed consistently by the user. > > Now we get to the bad human engineering part. Before I used > MARK_AS_ADVANCED for all those generated install locations. Thus, > they were > by default (unless they hit the t option) hidden from ccmake users > so they > could not see when they were inconsistent with what they wanted. > So that > was a nasty trap inadvertently set for the user. With > MARK_AS_ADVANCED > removed, they are now diplayed in all circumstances, and the users > therefore > have a chance to specify the desired install locations. And, of > course, if > they ever get tired of doing that, they can also avoid the problem > altogether by specifying the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX option for the > ccmake > command. > > Sorry, Jerry, you were caught by this (inadvertent) trap, but I > hope it is > all straightened out for you now. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
