On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov">jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 15:25, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>How exactly would we keep track of that? Go and look to see what kind of crazy shit was generated by the 'make install' in SuperLU? </div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Install it to a temporary directory and compute the manifest on that. </div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/su/superlu/PKGBUILD" target="_blank">http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/su/superlu/PKGBUILD</a></div><div><br></div><div>Most packages support DESTDIR which makes it simpler.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br>Which breaks things that bake in the install directory name. And some packages have a workaround<div>and some don't, which is again a less than robust way to operate and I think will create more headaches</div>
<div>than it solves.<br><div><br></div><div> Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener<br>
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