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

[Gianluca S. <gi...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Michael Banck <mb...@gm...> wrote:
> The general way of building Debian packages is:
>
> 1. Configure (run cmake in this case)
> 2. Make
> 3. Run testsuite, if there is any
> 4. Run Make install, overriding the target directory to a staging
> directory under debian/
> 5. Assemble package from the contents of the staging directory plus
> additional metadata.

This looks mostly the same for RPM based distros


>
> This makes it impossible or at least hackish and awkward to run the
> testsuite after install.
>
> I will have to look how other cmake projects do this with compiled
> python modules.  Note that I set RDK_INSTALL_INTREE=OFF.

I am not sure if you will find it hackish or not, but I'm using
RDK_INSTALL_INTREE=OFF and actually running tests in my rpm .spec file
here:

http://giallu.fedorapeople.org/rdkit.spec

I guess you should be ok with a similar arrangement.


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