Feature request: portability of installation directory

[lamorton]

I found that if I move the FIDASIM directory (wanted to reorganize my repositories on my MacBook by topic) then the application no longer runs. The error message is:

dyld: Library not loaded: /Users/lmorton/FIDASIM/deps/hdf5/lib/libhdf5_hl.10.dylib
            Referenced from: /Users/lmorton/Code/FIDASIM/fidasim
            Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

The absolute path to the dependencies is stuck looking at the old location under /User/lmorton/FIDASIM/dep when the new directory is under /Users/lmorton/Code/FIDASIM/dep/.

Ultimately, I worked around the issue by placing a symlink from the old location to the new.

Things I tried that did not work:

• Editing the application file in a text editor ( I could see the offending paths in cleartext, but editing caused a crash.)
• Rerunning make (says there is nothing to do)
• Adding the new directory location to LD_LIBRARY_PATH (suggested solution from stack overflow for similar error messages)

[lstagner]

All the paths are hard-coded at compile time so if you move the directory you will have to recompile the everything.

To do this you need to run

make clean_all

to remove all the previously compiled files. Then you can compile normally. To see all the makefile options run make help.

Also make sure you are using the v2.0 release and not the development version