[Bf-committers] Re: Makefiles - OpenEXR and python on ubuntu linux

[Branan Riley]

I run Gentoo. Everything that gets compiled through portage gets installed
in /usr.

Branan


On 7/17/06, GSR <gsr.b3d at infernal-iceberg.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> blender at djc.people.sgalliance.com (2006-07-17 at 0115.26 -0700):
> > > Currently in CVS, it's looking in /usr/local (nan_definitions.mk: 123)
> > > where at least on Ubuntu it should be looking in /usr. I see that the
> > > other Linux options below are all looking in /usr too. Should this be
> > > changed for linux/OpenEXR? I don't know if that would impact on other
> > > distributions.
> > We'll have to look at various options there and map which distros do
> > which.  It's likely that this was setup when most people were compiling
> > OpenEXR by hand where it would install itself in /usr/local as opposed
> > to /usr... nowadays quite a few distributions include OpenEXR in their
> > package management systems and this can likely change.
>
> I would try to figure which systems use pkgconfig and if many/all
> linux distros do that (which I guess is mostly all by now, as many
> other "basic in Linux" software require, not just allow, pkg-config
> for building), use the following lines (for static linked) and thus
> make it work in many/all:
>
> NAN_OPENEXR=$(shell pkg-config --variable=prefix OpenEXR )
> NAN_OPENEXR_INC=$(shell pkg-config --cflags OpenEXR )
> NAN_OPENEXR_LIBS=$(addprefix ${NAN_OPENEXR}/lib/lib,$(addsuffix .a,$(shell
> pkg-config --libs OpenEXR | sed -s "s/-l//g" )))
>
> What about commiting something like this and see how many people
> complain? In worst case it would mean people have to install pkgconfig
> if they had not built anything ever, but no big problem about finding
> it as it should be in many/all distros already.
>
> Or just go with /usr as with other system level libs, otherwise we
> keep with the problematic setting as we have done for months, at least
> since February (scons uses /usr, and both make and scons use
> sdl-config for sdl things, BTW). Sorry to be a bit blunt, just do
> something and see if that solves it, there is cvs if needed to go
> back.
>
> About looking, quick searchs show that Debian (and derived should
> too), Fedora Core / Red Hat, Suse, Mandriva and Slackware go with /usr
> and have OpenEXR.pc (correct me if wrong, they were really quick). For
> Gentoo I no idea if /usr as I do not know how to interpret their build
> config nor have a system handy, but I see strings like "mv
> ${D}/usr/share/doc/${P}/examples ${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples"
> and they depend on pkgconfig.
>
> GSR
>
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