Re: How to use INSTALL_LOCATION with system directories

[Lucas Russo via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Jure,

Yes. I could do that, but the point was to use the mechanism already in place

in the EPICS build system. I thought "INSTALL_LOCATION" would be enough,

but because there's no separate "build" and "install" phases, it doesn't really

work to compile sources with one user and install with another.

Basically, I thought I could do the "autotools" style installation.

Lucas

On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 5:03 PM Jure Varlec via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

On 10/9/23 16:15, Lucas Russo via Tech-talk wrote:

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Hi Ralph, Abdalla,

I understand. Because there's no separate "installation phase" it

doesn't seem possible to achieve what I was thinking.

Thanks,

Lucas

Hi Lucas,

Why not? Unless I misunderstood what you want, you could do

make INSTALL_LOCATION=${HOME}/tmp/staging/ FINAL_LOCATION=/opt/test
sudo mv ${HOME}/tmp/staging/ /opt/test
sudo chown -R epics:epics /opt/test  # Or root, or whatever

Perhaps having the staging directory under $(TOP) or /tmp makes more sense, it depends on your case, but you get the idea. Would this work for you?

Best,
Jure