Re: [Rdkit-devel] 2011.12 (Q4 2011) RDKit release

[Riccardo V. <ric...@gm...>]

Hi,

>> 1. Running the test-suite in-place is either impossible or really tricky
>> as the cmake puts the compiled objects below obj-* and leaves the python
>> code (including the .pyc byte-code files) in the main source tree.  I
>> had to give up and just copy over rdkit recursively into obj-*.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here. If you're doing an out-of-source
> build (which it sounds like you are), then you need to do a "make
> install" to get the built .so files copied into the $RDBASE/rdkit
> directory so that the python tests can pass.

alternatively (esp. in case a similar workflow were more suitable to
packaging) one could build inside the source tree, run the test suite,
and finally perform the installation to a different filesystem
location. Building inside the source tree is often advised against,
but the implementation of some tests only works if the binaries are in
there.

HTH,
Riccardo