Re: [ggt-devel] Building gmtl for MacPorts

[Patrick H. <pa...@13...>]

Doug McCorkle wrote:
> Hello,
>      I am trying to update the gmtl build in MacPorts with the latest  =

> release but am running into problems with the build steps required =20
> for MacPorts. MacPorts uses this scheme as noted here:
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> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/BuildPhases
>=20
> When prefix is specified to install gmtl into destroot, that is the =20
> prefix that is ultimately stored in the fpc file for the gmtl =20
> installation prefix. It seems MacPorts expects another command line =20
> variable like stage_prefix or sandbox_prefix that allows the =20
> installation to be staged but the location not written to *config, =20
> pc, and fpc files. I see where other packages employ scripts and sed =20
> to overwrite these changes, which I can do, but it seems there may be  =

> a better solution or adding the above mentioned prefix and associated  =

> target. What are everyones thoughts on this subject? I know there was  =

> a similar discussion on the cppdom list about build methods and steps  =

> which I am still working on for cppdom. I hoping that a simpler =20
> solution can be arrived at here.

I don't know if a simpler solution is possible. One would hope that fixin=
g
it for CppDOM would allow a fix to be devised for GMTL--or vice versa. It=

would be good to get this issue resolved, but I don't know how to fix it =
for
either case.

 -Patrick


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Patrick L. Hartling
VP Engineering, Infiscape Corp.
http://www.infiscape.com/