[Paraview] Install ParaView on a specified directory

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

"paraview" executable expects to find the libs either the standard
libs locations or that specified by LD_LIBRARY_PATH or under a
relative path <exe_dir>../lib/paraview-3.14 (from memory, so may be
slightly different). When you make a symbolic link, you end up messing
this "search" logic.

One solution is to use patchelf (http://nixos.org/patchelf.html) to
add the location of the libs to the rpath for every executable you're
creating the symlink for.

Utkarsh

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Magician <f_magician at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I built ParaView with helpful advices of the ML's users.
>
> Now I want to install ParaView on a specified directory.
> (ex. /usr/local/paraview-3.14.1)
> There appeared to be a parameter such as CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX,
> so I set it as "/usr/local/paraview-3.14.1" and ran configure.
>
> The installation looked successfully finished.
> Additionally I appended libraries' paths to /etc/ld.so.conf.
> I could execute "/usr/local/paraview-3.14.1/bin/paraview"
> and everything looked fine.
>
> But if I made symbolic link as
> "ln -s /usr/local/paraview-3.14.1/bin/paraview /usr/local/bin/paraview"
> and tried to execute "paraview", I got an error as below:
>> Error converting executable file "/usr/local/bin/../lib/paraview-3.14/paraview"
>> to real path: No such file or directory
>
> Which is the best way to change the installation directory
> and execute with a symbolic link on /usr/local/bin?
>
>
> Magician
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