On Sun, 7 Oct 2012, Paulo Moura wrote: > have stuff like GMP or GraphViz installed? Do ECLiPSe developers really > expect users to reinstall third-party software in non-standard locations > just to compile ECLiPSe? Specially when virtually all other Prolog I was upset by this when I discovered it, too. However, it's not quite as bad as requiring a reinstall of everything. I got good results by building a directory full of symlinks to where the packages actually were, and pointing the environment variable at the link farm. I think the bigger problem than not accepting a "standard" location is that ECLiPSe expects everything to be installed in the *same* location (standard or not). When I needed to recompile ECLiPSe with third-party library support, I was doing so at a university where all the third-party packages had been installed by our IT department, not in /usr/local and not all in one place. Especially given that some of them were expensive commercial packages, I didn't have the opportunity to reinstall them or to change where they were installed. Being able to tell ECLiPSe "use /usr/local", or any single "standard" place, wouldn't have helped. What's really needed is what everybody else does - have a separate configuration setting for each third-party package. -- Matthew Skala mskala_at_ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/Received on Sun Oct 07 2012 - 18:51:06 CEST
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