[gmx-users] make install creating infinite recursive directories: addendum

[Harry Mark Greenblatt]

BS"D

Dear Mark,



OK. The GROMACS developers intended the user to follow normal practice,
such as doing the build in user space in the file system, and then
installing as root, and installing to somewhere other than the source
tarball location. Unpacking a source tarball in /opt and building from
there (as root or not) is asking for various kinds of trouble. That
(apparently) CMake gets confused by the source and install directory being
the same comes under the heading of "not our problem" ;-)

Well, interestingly enough, the CMake package itself didn't have a problem installing into its own directory.

Anyhow, at least the resolution of the "problem" is pretty straightforward.

Thanks

Harry



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