It did. Thanks Orion! On Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 2:48:00 AM UTC+1, elenzil wrote: > > should have done a bit more searching first. > > looks like the solution may look like this: > > * run configure with --prefix set to the target folder, > and with --disable-shared specified to trigger static linking. > > * make clean > > * make install > > and there you have a portable version of protoc ! > > sorry for the spam, > hopefully this will help someone in the future. in the future! > > orion > > > On Nov 25, 5:25 pm, elenzil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Howdy! > > > > apologies in advance if i ask something meaningless. > > > > we have a number of dev-boxes on osx and linux, > > and would like to simply compile protoc for each platform and include > > it as part of our project repository, > > rather than installing it up in the root /usr/local folder. > > this should simplify the build process for new engineers, and avoid > > having to sudo. > > > > is this feasible ? > > > > my approach was going to be to make install to a local folder and then > > copy that folder into our repo. > > > > however when using the --prefix option to ./configure, eg: > > ./configure --prefix="/tmp/myLocalFolder/protobuf" > > and then doing make install, > > i get the error > > "libtool: install: error: cannot install `libprotoc.la' to a directory > > not ending in /usr/local/lib". > > > > am i attempting something impossible / meaningless / ignorant ? > > > > tia, > > Orion >
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