[M3devel] -rpath/origin/CM3_INSTALL on osf

[Jay K]

It looks like you can't use $FOO/t, just $FOO.
So I'll probably use CM3_RPATH.

 - Jay

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> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: -rpath/origin/CM3_INSTALL on osf
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:43:22 +0000
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> OSF, at least the older version that Mika is running, supports -rpath /foo/bar and -rpath ${arbitrary_environment_variable}, but not -rpath $origin.
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> Therefore I believe we should pick an arbitrary_environment_variable.
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> I'd like CM3_ROOT, but that is already somewhat/optionally in use for the root of the source tree.
> CM3_INSTALL is somewhat/optionally in use to mean what we want here.
> So CM3_INSTALL should probably be it.
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> Alternatively we could pick something really new, OSF_CM3_RPATH or such, and drop in wrapper scripts that set it to their location.
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> As well, OSF still has the "old" structure where all the .so files are strewn around pkg instead of flattened into lib.
> I'll fix that shortly.
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> You know, the distributions I uploaded have /home/jayk presumably all around them.
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> We could also "stage" installs to somewhere unique/arbitrary and require user to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> But CM3_INSTALL seems adequate, maybe better.
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> Possibly CM3_INSTALL_5_8, CM3_INSTALL_5_9, etc.
>   Though really, better than that is probably wrapper scripts that set CM3_INSTALL.
> And wrapper scripts could be executables, put the real executables in lib or such.
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>  - Jay
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