Bug Report: VTK 3.1.2 IRIX install

[Randall Hopper]

     VTK built ok, but 'make install' failed.  In vtk31/graphics/Makefile
it tries to run "./install-sh" (note the leading path), but install-sh
exists in vtk31/.  So it fails to run this script.

Changing this line in system.make:
   INSTALL         = ./install-sh -c

to this:
   INSTALL         = $(VTK_OBJ)/install-sh -c

fixes it.

INSTALL is getting set wrong because $srcdir in configure is a relative
path (".") rather than an absolute one, and $srcdir is used to set INSTALL.

Either making $srcdir an absolute path in configure (see attached patch),
or using $(VTK_OBJ) as above when sed'ing @INSTALL@ into system.make would
work.


Of course once you know what the problem is, you can work around it by
invoking configure like this:

         configure -srcdir `pwd` ...            (csh/tcsh)

which forces $srcdir to be absolute.

-- 
Randall Hopper
aa8vb at yahoo.com
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--- ORIG/configure	Wed Apr 26 10:46:13 2000
+++ configure	Wed Apr 26 10:45:47 2000
@@ -507,6 +507,12 @@
 fi
 srcdir=`echo "${srcdir}" | sed 's%\([^/]\)/*$%\1%'`
 
+# Make srcdir absolute (finding install-sh depends on this)
+old_pwd=`pwd`
+cd $srcdir
+srcdir=`pwd`
+cd $old_pwd
+
 # Prefer explicitly selected file to automatically selected ones.
 if test -z "$CONFIG_SITE"; then
   if test "x$prefix" != xNONE; then