[Openexr-devel] RE: MacOS X build directories

[Chris Cox]

Drew;

When running this on a daily build system for applications, installing to 
/usr/local/lib is not an option.
We need usable libraries in an accessible location within the source tree (in 
this case it should be inside the OpenEXR 1.3.1 directory).

And if automake is doing something dumb, it needs to be changed or overridden.
Remember: not all the world is running Linux.

Chris

PS. The Windows DevStudio projects seem to build into the source directory 
correctly.


-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Hess [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tue 6/20/2006 11:22 AM
To: Chris Cox
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: MacOS X build directories
 

Chris Cox <address@hidden> writes:

> On OS X, you are writing the built libraries into directories named .lib
>
> The MacOS finder and default shell settings hide directories and files
> starting with a dot -- so I spent 20 minutes trying to find the built
> libraries.  Unfortunately, the auto generated makefiles are about as clear
> as mud.  I had to do a clean and rebuild, then check the command lines
> issued by the build to find where you put the built libraries.


I didn't specifically choose to build the libraries in .lib, that's
just the way automake, libtool and friends work.

'make install' will put the files in /usr/local, so you can fish them
out from there in the future.  The README file says that you should
'make install' after running 'make', and the README.OSX file points
you to the GNU/Linux instructions for building, so I'm not sure how
much clearer I can make that, but I'll see what I can do.

d