[Plplot-devel] [ plplot-Bugs-1874677 ] plInBuildTree() confused by symbolic links in BUILD_DIR

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Bugs item #1874677, was opened at 2008-01-18 06:13
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
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Summary: plInBuildTree() confused by symbolic links in BUILD_DIR

Initial Comment:
When I tried to build plplot, make failed when trying to create the <driver>.rc files, because get-drv-info
looked for the <driver>.so files in the installation directory (/usr/local/lib/plplot5.8.0/driversd),
rather than in the build directory.

If I remember correctly:

(in <build_dir>) 
cmake -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON  ../plplot-5.8.0 
make
[...]
failure: 
libltdl error: /usr/local/lib/plplot5.8.0/driversd/cairo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The problem was probably that plInBuildTree()
got confused by symbolic links in the path:
BUILD_DIR got set to a path that included a symbolic
link (<home_dir>/src/plplot_build, where <home_dir>/src is a symbolic link to <some_other_dir>/src ).

The workaround I used was:

ln -s <build_dir>/drivers (as root)  /usr/local/lib/plplot-5.8.0/driversd
make
rm /usr/local/lib/plplot-5.8.0/driversd
make install 

But probably I could have solved it by running cmake in <some_other_dir>/src/plplot_build .

Jeroen Nijhof
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