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7 years ago I have understood better how the installation works.
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX does not seem to be used
What it uses are
LUA_INCDIR LUADIR LIBDIR LUA_LIBDIR LUA_BINDIR
and CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is implied from LUA_BINDIR.
This is probably not super orthodox, but it is clear now.
The only thing one might suggests is to decouple the LUA_INCDIR as it is now used both to read lua header files and as installation folder for torch header. So if I want to install to a separate (local) folder I cant as it tries to write output in the same place where it got the lua header files.
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Hi I am trying to configure, build and install torch7 without the distro install.sh
Everything seems to work except the fact that CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is ignored/overwritten. Basically the output of the compilation is
1) some .lua files: they go to LUADIR 2) some .so lua modules: they go to LIBDIR 3) some other libs (libTH): they go to the source folder. 4) some other things like header files, cmake rules..
I am not sure how 3 happens, but it seems that something it is overwriting CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to the source folder.
Is it possible to specify the output folder of these extra libs? For a system wide install they should go to the usual /usr/lib location. For a simpler installation, they can go in the same place as 2 since they have RPATH=$ORIGIN (so I do not need LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
This is the way I invoke cmake
cmake path/to/torch -DLUA_INCDIR=/usr/include/luajit-2.0 -DLUA=/usr/bin/luajit -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DLUADIR=/usr/share/lua/5.1 -DLIBDIR=/usr/lib/lua/5.1
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr does not seem to be used. Should I set some other variables?
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