Re: [xml-cppdom-devel] Building cppdom prefix problem

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

On Feb 15, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Patrick Hartling wrote:

> Doug McCorkle wrote:
>> Hello,
>>      Currently, when building cppdom, headers and libs are installed
>> in prefix even if the install target is not listed. This causes
>> issues when trying to make cppdom accessible through MacPorts. In
>> general this seems to be somewhat of a problem.
>
> That sounds like bad behavior in general. Software shouldn't be  
> installing
> itself unless told to do so.
>
> The CppDOM build is in pretty bad shape and hasn't ever been quite  
> what I
> would call ideal. The installation part has never really worked  
> correctly,
> but I don't think I have seen this specific behavior. What I have  
> seen is
> that running the build separately from the installation doesn't  
> work well,
> but the build certainly should support a two-step build+install  
> process.
> What version are you using?
>
0.6.6 source I believe.

>> I "fixed" the problem
>> by adding guards in the scons files but that may not be the solution
>> everyone is looking for. Thoughts?
>
> What are guards in this context?

if 'install' in COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS:

Doug