[Paraview] Install ParaView on a specified directory

[Magician]

Hi Utkarsh,


Thanks for your advice.
I tried patchelf, but I couldn't get expected result.

The best way now I found was to add a path to /usr/local/paraview-3.14.1/bin.
I'll do it for a time.


Magician


On 2012/05/07, at 0:03, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:

> "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