Re: [ggt-devel] Building gmtl for MacPorts

[Doug M. <mc...@ia...>]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Daniel E. Shipton wrote:

> Look at the juggler fpc files.  There is a ${fp_cwd} variable (or
> something close to it) that can you can set prefix with using relative
> paths.
>
Right. It would be the simplest/quickest/cleanest solution but does  
not really address the problem in my opinion. If everyone is good  
with this option I will implement it this evening.

Doug

> -D
>
> On 6/26/07, Doug McCorkle <mc...@ia...> wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 26, 2007, at 11:01 AM, 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 for MacPorts. MacPorts uses this scheme as noted here:
>>>
>>> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/BuildPhases
>>>
>>> When prefix is specified to install gmtl into destroot, that is the
>>> prefix that is ultimately stored in the fpc file for the gmtl
>>> installation prefix. It seems MacPorts expects another command line
>>> variable like stage_prefix or sandbox_prefix that allows the
>>> installation to be staged but the location not written to *config,
>>> pc, and fpc files. I see where other packages employ scripts and
>>> sed 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 solution can be arrived at here.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>
>> I forgot to mention that I was also thinking that a potential
>> solution would be to use the flagpoll functionality that sets the
>> prefix based on where the fpc file resides. This solution seems to be
>> somewhat of a hack because the underlying build problem is still
>> present but would solve the problem without many changes to the
>> current build system.
>>
>> Doug