Short version: 'make' builds and installs the dependencies for Hyrax

To build the dependencies for the BES handlers used with Hyrax, run 'make' in this directory. The Makefile requires that the environment variable 'prefix' has been set. It should point to the directory where you are installing Hyrax. The Makefile will compile, test and install all of the dependencies in $prefix/deps.

** For the Apple M1/2 and maybe other machines, the GDAL library needs special help finding libpng. If the GDAL library cannot find libpng (you have to read over the GDAL configure output to learn this and that's painful, I know) then use the Makefile variable $(LIBPNG) to provide the base path for the libpng include and lib directories. You can do this by writing a file called 'hyrax-site.mk' in the directory that holds 'hyrax-dependencies' and putting '--with-png=/path/to/include-and-lib' in that file. Look at the top of the Makefile to see how hyrax-site.mk is included by the main Makefile. jhrg 5/8/23

Other targets in the Makefile besides 'all:'

for-static-rpm: Use this to build only static versions of the libraries. This is used to build RPM packages for Hyrax that use statically linked dependency libraries.

for-travis: This build the dependencies for a CI build on Travis (which uses Ubuntu 14 as of 11/30/17).

clean: run clean in all the src dirs

really-clean: remove the src dirs and start over expandin the dependencies' source distributions.

uninstall: Remove all the stuff from $prefix/deps

dist: Make a tar ball distribution.

To use these dependecies with the complete BES build, use the --with-dependencies= option with its configure script like this:

   ./configure [other options] --with-depdendencies=$prefix/deps

Note that most people who build Hyrax from source will want to set the prefix to a specific directory, so that option would be included as well (--prefix=$prefix), and the PATH environment variable should nominally include $prefix/bin and $prefix/deps/bin.