[openib-general] osm: management headers installed into /usr/ local/include

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 07:52, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> Hi Hal,
> 
> I looked further into the userspace/management autoconf/automake
> system and found out that the tweak of the prefix directory (from
> /usr/local to /usr/local/ib) was done in a hack, rather then the "auto
> tools" way:
> 
> Autoconf provides the macro: AC_PREFIX_DEFAULTto do change default
> prefix.
> 
> Using this macro the bindir, libdir and includedir, datadir, etc, will
> be set correctly.
> 
> To use it in our case every configure.in should have this directive:
> 
> AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT([/usr/local/ib])
> 
> The current method of overriding the bindir/libdir in the Makefile.am
> works but breaks other standard autoconf features like the -prefix for
> directing the installation dir to the non default directory.
> 
> Actually some other prefix dependant variables should be re-assigned
> and are missing.
> 
> I think that we should fix this and do it the "Auto tools" way.
> 
> Please approve and I will provide a patch for using the macro.

Yes, that is a better way and I would accept such a patch.

> Actually the entire management tree should have been built as a
> standard "auto tools" project utilizing the AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS. This is
> somewhat a larger change so I do not think it worth it this time. It
> will require ALL the sub directories to be "autogen" then ALL of them
> configured then ALL make ...
> 
> This normally requires a special compilation mode ("pre-install")
> where the libs and includes are taken from relative paths rather then
> from the final "install" path. The advantage is that the entire
> project can be "configured" and if something is broken in the required
> C lib or stdlib you do not wait for the specific sub dir to fail but
> get the notice in advance. There might be other benefits like adhering
> to the standard build procedure.

IMO, the sooner the better if this is going to change.

-- Hal

> Please approve the direction for this patch (using AC_DEFAULT_PREFIX)
> is acceptable.
> 
>  
> 
> EZ
> 
> Eitan Zahavi
> 
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> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eitan Zahavi [mailto:eitan at mellanox.co.il] 
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 12:05 PM
> To: openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: [openib-general] osm: management headers installed into
> /usr/local/include 
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Hal,
> 
> According to the README from the management directory the executables
> are installed by default to:
> 
> /usr/local/ib/bin and the libs into /usr/local/ib/lib.
> 
> The header files are not described but are installed into
> /usr/local/include/infiniband
> 
> Was this done in purpose?
> 
> I would expect the headers to follow the same prefix of the
> executables and libs.
> 
> I can work on a patch to move them to /usr/local/ib/include
> 
> EZ
> 
>