Install instructions

[Dazed_75]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 15:14 +0100, Robert Helling wrote:
> > On 17.12.2013, at 05:16, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That makes no sense. Which options did you call qmake with?
> > > Which platform is this on?
> > >
> > > No options at all as shown on the "Building" page.  I used qmake
> rather than qmake-qt4 although both executables are present.
> >
> > Same here (on my old debian box)
> >
> > git pull
> > [bla di bla]
> > qmake
>
> use qmake-qt4 if you have both
>
> > make
> > [bla di bla]
> >
> > robert at tmp:~/subsurface$ make -n install
> > make -C /home/robert/subsurface/Documentation
> OUT=/home/robert/subsurface/Documentation/ doc
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/robert/subsurface/Documentation'
> > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `doc'.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/subsurface/Documentation'
> > test -d // || mkdir -p //
>
> Check your Makefile. What is 'prefix' set to? It's '/usr' on my Debian
> system and things work perfectly.
>
> > install -m 755 -p /home/robert/subsurface/subsurface //
> > test -d // || mkdir -p //
> > install -m 644 -p /home/robert/subsurface/subsurface.desktop //
>
> This means that not only 'prefix' is missing - something is completely
> hosed:
>
>  BINDIR = $(prefix)/bin
>  DATADIR = $(prefix)/share
>  DESKTOPDIR = $(DATADIR)/applications
>
> Those two install instructions above install into BINDIR and DESKTOPDIR
>
> If those variables resolve to '//' then something is seriously wrong.
>
> It looks to me like those variables are set in subsurface-install.pri
which appears should be invoked/read by Makefile but it either is not
happening or something is wrong for the logic of subsurface-install.pri.
Sorry, but this is now going way over my head analysis wise.  I do not know
how to test what is actually happening or not happening.
-- 
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