[jira] [Updated] (PROTON-445) Binding installation ignores prefix

["Rafael H. Schloming (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-445?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Rafael H. Schloming updated PROTON-445:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 0.6)
                   0.7

> Binding installation ignores prefix
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>
>                 Key: PROTON-445
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-445
>             Project: Qpid Proton
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: proton-c
>    Affects Versions: 0.5
>            Reporter: Justin Ross
>            Assignee: Darryl L. Pierce
>             Fix For: 0.7
>
>         Attachments: what-a-mess.txt
>
>
> It allows you *prepend* to the install prefix, but it gives you no way afaict to actually change the prefix.
> This is the opposite of nice.  If you set a prefix for your build *and* you try to get your bindings slotted in with them, via DESTDIR, you get this:
> # cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/opt/myplace /var/tmp/jross/baker/proton/source
> # make install DESTDIR=/opt/myplace
> /opt/myplace/usr/lib/python/*python files*
> /opt/myplace/opt/myplace/lib/*c files*
> ^^ Note "/opt/myplace/opt/myplace", the first from DESTDIR, the second from CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
> What it is doing now is simply abuse of DESTDIR.  DESTDIR is intended to be a mechanism for staged installs (packaging systems use this), and it cannot function correctly as an override for prefix.
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html
> My proposed solution to this is to stop this madness: make the binding install honor CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.  Let the developer be responsible for choosing the right location for his or her distribution.



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