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

[David Cole]

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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