[Scilab-Dev] Module installation (was: Building scilab-master-1286272063 on Fedora 13)

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le lundi 18 octobre 2010 à 18:26 -0700, Dean S. Messing a écrit :
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:22:20 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru
> > Actually, sorry but no :p
> > It would be /usr/local/src/scilab-master-1286272063/share/scilab/
> > 
> > SCI is the point of the Scilab data. The rest can be guess by Scilab.
> 
> 
> Thanks to both you and Calixte.
> Unfortunately, after the build completes, there _is no_ "share/"
> directory under /usr/local/src/scilab-master-1286272063/
> 
> What _is_ true is that after I do "make install" in
>    /usr/local/src/scilab-master-1286272063/
> a /usr/local/share/scilab directory is created (along with directories
>    in /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include, &c.
> 
> But then "/usr/local/share/scilab/" contains no Makefiles.  Just the
> stuff that was built.  I've built a few times now (just for fun. :-)
> Sometimes the ".bin", "lib", and "names" files get installed in
> /usr/local/share/scilab/modules/*/macros/ and sometimes they don't.  In
> no cases do I explicit set SCI since I don't know yet what to set it to.
> 
> When the above files don't get installed, I go into
> /usr/local/src/scilab-master-1286272063/modules and `make install' from
> there, which seems to force the install of those files into the above
> directies.  Not sure if I've done something wrong.
> 
> And I'm still not clear on what my $SCI directory is. :-)
I don't understand why you have all this problems... We are doing all
these operations on a daily basis in the compilation chain.
Anyway, the normal steps are:
* ./configure 
* make all doc
* make install

> But I'm a novice at this.
Can I ask why you are not using the Scilab binaries then ? ;)

Sylvestre