[Paraview] Bug in CMake Install code for the 3.6.1 Release on OS X

[David Cole]

And, BTW, if you don't have write privileges to "/Applications" then you
should get some sort of error message when doing the "make install" -- let
us know if that's not the case.


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:47 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> Yes, it is intended, and has to do with the dual nature of the ParaView Mac
> installation. (It's a bundle app, it's a unix command line tool, you
> decide...)
>
> Use:DESTDIR=blah make install
>
> and it will end up in "$blah/Applications" instead of "/Applications"
>
> If we put it where CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX points, it would end up in /usr/bin
> or /usr/local/bin for most people and they would never find it. Not what
> most people want...
>
> If you use DESTDIR, the "/Applications" is prefixed with the DESTDIR value
> so that you can put it wherever you want.
>
> On the other hand, "make package" should work and give you a *.dmg file
> that has the client app in it that you can drag-n-drop wherever you want,
> too.
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Michael Jackson <
> mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>
>> I have PV 3.6.1 from CVS and ran a "make install" and to my surprise I end
>> up with "ParaView3.6.1.app in /Applications which is NOT where
>> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is set to. The rest of ParaView seems to have been
>> installed into CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX but not the actual Application Bundle.
>> If this was intended behavior, what is the reason? I would have expected
>> everything to show where I set the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to.
>>   What if I don't have write privileges to /Applications on my machine?
>>
>>
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