[omniORB] omniORB binary builds for Unix. Comments/suggestions please.

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 18 December, "Tingle, Alex" wrote:

> I plan to build omniORB binaries for a variety of Unix platforms, so that
> Duncan can upload them to Sourceforge. How does everyone think I should
> package the binaries?

[...]
> Originally, Duncan & I agreed that I would build the binaries as normal and
> then just tar up the omni directory again. Users could then just use the
> normal `make install'. However once I started to do that, it occurred to me
> that it wouldn't necessary be much use to anyone but me.

I've had a better idea. What you can do is to use the DESTDIR support
to actually do a make install, but to a different location. Then
people can just untar the binary at the top of their tree. Do
something like

  $ make DESTDIR=/tmp/dist/ install

That will create the complete installation tree under /tmp/dist, which
you can tar up. That approach will still force the users to install it
in the location you chose at configure time, but I can't see any way
around that.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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