[Paraview-developers] [Paraview] Development Install Tree

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Another comment about make HTMLDocumentation. Following a recent
commit (due to an issue Eric raised on the mailing list a few days
ago), people should forget about this target :). Instead, turn
GENERATE_FILTERS_DOCUMENTATION to ON and rest assured that the filters
documentation will get included.

Utkarsh


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Mark Olesen <Mark.Olesen at faurecia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 09:57 -0500, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>> I haven't really read  the full thread but I saw that everyone seems
>> to using "make install". A couple of comments about that.
>>
>> Currently, we recommend users to use "cpack" to create the package
>> (tgz or what have you) instead of "make install" since currently,
>> "make install" doesn't support component-based install i.e. ParaView
>> source cannot pick which "INSTALL" command have any effect based on
>> their "COMPONENT". Consequently, you might end up with more stuff in
>> your install tree than expected.
>>
>> To run cpack on ParaView application, you do something as follows:
>>
>> cpack -G TGZ --config
>> <path-to-paraview-build-dir>/Applications/ParaView/CPackParaViewConfig.cmake
>
>
> Even after having previously built everything (make && make
> HTMLDocumentation, as well as make preinstall for good measure) the
> above mentioned cpack command still takes about 5minutes to compile
> stuff and pack everything up.
>
> The resulting tar.gz file may look fairly clean, but all of the cmake
> files are missing (which means it can't be used for building plugins).
> I thought that the cpack was supposed to pick up what was specified to
> cmake, but it didn't seem to know that
> PARAVIEW_INSTALL_DEVELOPMENT:BOOL=ON had been specified ... and it still
> can't find its documentation.
>
>
> Another interesting result (I really didn't expect this):
> All of the VTK libraries have been eliminated and instead the bin/
> directory contains monster binaries: paraview, pvdataserver,
> pvrenderserver, pvserver with about 162M-177MB each.
>
>
> I don't mean to be particular obtuse, but how in the world does one
> manage achieve the following:
>  A working paraview
>  - that is fully relocatable
>  - that can be used for building plugins
>  - that also manages to find its own documentation.
>
> I'm obviously doing something wrong - could someone please supply a
> recipe for doing this?
>
>
> /mark
>
>
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