Re: FreeCAD build, need cmake help
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
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.
Yeah, I'm not thrilled about it but I didn't get the sense that
upstream is willing to update their code for that. At least not yet,
I'll see if I can wear him down :)
Though *I* won't be using that non-Free software (well, based on
a non-Free
library) anyway. ;-)
Yup, not thrilled about that either but there isn't really an
alternative that I know of for solid modeling. If you just need 2D
architecture type work then you can just use qcad.
Richard