[vtk-developers] ThirdParty/verdict installs in odd places

[Clinton Stimpson]

On Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:59:29 AM David Thompson wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> > When I run "make install" on VTK master, the verdict module
> > installs its files in the wrong places, e.g. not inside of a
> > vtk-6.0 subdirectory:
> > 
> > /usr/local/doc/verdict
> > /usr/local/doc/verdict/1.2.0/verdict_test.cpp
> > /usr/local/include/verdict.h
> > /usr/local/lib/libvtkverdict-6.0.so.1.2.0
> > 
> > Is there anyone familiar with this module?
> 
> Yes. It appears to be using some old pre-modularization CMake variables to
> determine the install path (e.g., VTK_INSTALL_LIB_DIR_CM24). Its behavior
> should be no worse than VTK's hdf5 build… is it? The only difference
> between verdict's and hdf5's use of these install locataions is that
> verdict only looks for VTK_INSTALL_LIB_DIR_CM24 if the install prefix
> hasn't been explicitly set in the CMake cache. That was done so that (back
> in the days of SVN) verdict could be built standalone for use outside VTK.

Can we please keep the ability to build it standalone?

-- 
Clinton Stimpson
Elemental Technologies, Inc
Computational Simulation Software, LLC
www.csimsoft.com