Currently, the instructions focus on systemwide installations of both the dependencies (CLN and GiNaC) as well as GiNaCDE itself. I think it would be very helpful to also mention the necessary extra flags to install the software locally (e.g. into ~/.local or similar). This is particularly useful for usage on clusters and corporate machines where one typically doesn't have sudo rights.
For CLN and GiNaC the necessary bit is augmenting the ./configure bit by --prefix=~/.local. This could be noted here but is also explained in their respective documentation. (optional)
For GiNaCDE, one needs to add -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=~/.local to the cmake call, i.e. cmake -DGINACDE_GUI_BUILD=on -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=~/.local <path-to-source> # generate Makefiles
mithun218
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2 years ago
(This issue is part of my JOSS review, see https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/3885.)
Currently, the instructions focus on systemwide installations of both the dependencies (CLN and GiNaC) as well as GiNaCDE itself. I think it would be very helpful to also mention the necessary extra flags to install the software locally (e.g. into
~/.localor similar). This is particularly useful for usage on clusters and corporate machines where one typically doesn't havesudorights../configurebit by--prefix=~/.local. This could be noted here but is also explained in their respective documentation. (optional)-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=~/.localto thecmakecall, i.e.cmake -DGINACDE_GUI_BUILD=on -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=~/.local <path-to-source> # generate Makefiles