Re: [Plplot-devel] Install location logic substantially updated

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2017-07-22 01:59-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

[...]
> The above commit was rather intrusive so I gave it a complete
> noninteractive and interactive comprehensive test which passed with
> only minor dashboard submission issues (see the commit message for
> commit 62e07d4 for the details) which I have since fixed.
>
> However, our comprehensive tests do not test the
>
> make DESTDIR=<location of staging area> install
>
> trick used by packagers.  So I would appreciate you doing that
> and checking to see if this series of commits has introduced any
> problems.

To Ole and Orion:

I have just tried testing the use of DESTDIR as above by hand. As
expected, all files were installed in the staging area rather than the
designated install location.  I then moved that staging area to the
designated install location and built the test_noninteractive and
test_interactive targets by hand for that location for both our
CMake-based build system for the installed examples, and our
traditional (Makefile + pkg-config) build system for the installed
examples.  All seemed well for these 4 tests.  So that is a reassuring
result concerning our install location relocatability.

However, I still encourage both of you to attempt to package our git
master branch since that not only tests the above capability, but also
tests the latest PLplot in other useful ways.

Alan
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