FreeCAD build, need cmake help

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Dec 1 21:12:02 CET 2011


Richard Shaw wrote:
> It turns out it's largely Python based and looks for the Mod directory
> relative to the binary directory.

That should probably be patched.

> I talked to one of the developers and he said it would be better to go
> ahead and put everything in /usr/lib{,64}/freecad and symlink the
> binaries to /usr/bin. It makes my system install option pretty much
> useless since you can set the install location by overriding
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, but I still have to setup the proper rpath's so
> everything can find everything else...

I'm not sure I like this solution… I think fixing the Python code to support 
systemwide installations properly would be a better solution than this hack.

Though *I* won't be using that non-Free software (well, based on a non-Free 
library) anyway. ;-)

        Kevin Kofler



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