[sldev] CMake preview available - please try it out!

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Thu Jan 31 17:57:20 PST 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 22:45 +0000, Robin Cornelius wrote:
> 4) App Read only data. Linux FSH and certainly Debian policy says that
> application read only data should live in /usr/share/application_name/.
> This is a simple patch to  linden/indra/llvfs/lldir_linux.cpp to change
> -       mAppRODataDir = tmp_str;
> +       mAppRODataDir = "/usr/share/secondlife";
> 
> Windows and Mac tend to keep their data and applications together,
> unless you start using (windows) documents and settings/user/application
> data/..... but most apps just install in program files/app_name and mac
> keeps its stuff together in a different way. So this is a linux only
> thing and only effects those who want a direct install. Any one just
> building a replacment secondlife-bin or a tarball does not want to be
> bothered by this and this is also only applicable if you are going to
> package or install directly.
> 
> It might be nice to be able to adjust this variable from the build line
> for packagers and default to what it is currently for others. I don't
> think this is necessary however, a patch really is not a problem and is
> not really related to the cmake side of things here.

Actually this is exactly the kind of crap I was hoping cmake would fix.
Seeing as cmake has an actual install system that takes care of exactly
this problem.
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