On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Tim Jenness wrote:
>
>> This is great progress.
>>
>> ORACDR should work fine since we relocate it all the time. For Puana Brad
>> added a "starperl" command to the path that is used to locate a suitable
>> perl uniquely. The only trick is finally to add perl to the default build
>> along with a "starperl" install.
>
> There is also the issue of rpath on Linux. If an existing /star/lib is
> present I expect those libraries will be picked up instead of the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH ones. So this method probably won't work for installing a
> private update when there's a system-wide installation already. If that's a
> problem we'll need to mention chrpath (maybe we could offer releases cleaned
> of RPATHs). No idea how this will work for OS X.
>
OSX has a command for changing the path so long as it's shorter than the
original path (ie we would have to build the releases for a
/very/long/path/star and then provide a little install script that
shortens it to the correct location.
Perl 5.10 (maybe to be released soon) is properly relocatable.
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Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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