[CMake] cmake 2.4.8 RC 9

[Mike Jackson]

On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> Karl Merkley wrote:
>> I was just testing the dmg install on a Mac G5 running Mac OS X  
>> 10.4 .   I do find it a touch odd that if I choose a directory  
>> ($dir)  for install that it places it in $dir/usr.   This means  
>> that if I want to do an install into /usr/local I get a /usr/local/ 
>> usr/bin.   That doesn't seem quite right.    I haven't tried  
>> bundling my own package yet.
>
> That will be fixed in 2.6 but the fixes for that are too large for  
> the 2.4.8 branch.  But, the /usr/local thing is really sort of  
> bad.  I will look into seeing if some "hack" can be put on the  
> branch to get around this....
>
> -Bill
>

Bill, having worked with packagemaker before I believe this is a  
simple fix. Who ever is packaging cmake should NOT use /usr as the  
root, but pack the bin/ share/ loose in the package. That way when  
someone selects /usr/local or even /usr the proper structure is built/ 
used.


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Mike Jackson
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