[QGIS-Developer] Build / install issues

[Colin Sare-Soar]

Richard,

No, nor am I! I normally use Qt and that takes care of the makefiles itself.
It was just that 1 entry that expanded wrong for some reason but having said that, I didn't edit any other entries.

It's all running fine now though.

Colin
> On 25/10/2021 13:25 Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Ah, wait now I see you have a cmake/'man'-page issue...
> Sorry, that works fine with me... I'm not too much into the cmake magic...
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On 10/25/21 4:41 AM, Colin Sare-Soar wrote:
> > I originally posted this as a bug on Github but was told it was better posted here.
> > 
> > Although it isn't qgis itself, it is the build system.
> > When I enter the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX as ${HOME}/apps as suggested, the install fails as unable to create directory
> > "/apps//apps/man/man1 - maybe need admin privileges"
> > I have no idea where it gets this spurious path from. I checked the cmake_install_cmake file and that was even stranger.
> > The entry was "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} ${HOME}/apps/man/man.1" - obviously wrong!
> > I entered "~/apps" in the ninja config script and that expanded correctly to give "/home/colins2/apps".
> > running 'ninja install' then correctly built and installed qgis.
> > I don't think it is my system (Mint 20.1) because when I entered the line
> > "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${HOME}/apps/lib/" they expanded correctly. it must be something in the script generator that causes the error. It happens both with ninja and the cmake scripts.
> > 
> > Maybe it is only Mint but worth a comment somewhere maybe.
> > Colin
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