Re: [Chicken-hackers] Build problems

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> My other Ubuntu system behaves in the same way.  I think you've both
> worked out why this was happening--the CMake configuration doesn't
> provide a hard-coded path in the target files so the user must
> configure the system instead to ensure that the default path contains
> the required libraries.

It seems there's plenty of RPATH functionality available in CMake.  You 
just have to specify it, it's not automatic.  Googling around, it seems 
there's some religion about whether RPATHs should be allowed; various OS 
distros ban them.  If RPATH is indeed deemed politically correct, then 
according to 
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cmake/2006-July/010272.html all we 
have to do is:

"Just set INSTALL_RPATH on the module target to be the rpath needed in 
the install tree. Then things will just work."

I'm feeling a little hazy about RPATH religion so I welcome others' 
comments on it.  I'm still not really a Linuxer.  I have a nominally 
working Cell BE simulator on Fedora Core 6 now, but it was very boring 
to get to that point, and I'm sort of burned out about it.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every