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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Chris!

On Jul 06, Chris Ross (cross2) wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 7/6/20, 10:36, "Sergei Golubchik" <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     Hi, Chris!
> 
>     On Jul 06, Chris Ross (cross2) wrote:
>     > ... I want to install into /usr/lib64.  Assuming there
>     > isn’t an easy “just do that” flag, can I set the library path used to
>     > install?
> 
>     -DINSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib64
> 
>     Are you building a binary tarball?
>     RPM/DEB packages automatically use /usr/lib64 if needed.
> 
>     see cmake/install_layout.cmake - may be rpm or deb layout will work
>     better for you.
> 
> Thanks.  Hmm, okay, I see that now.  I was using STANDALONE, as you guessed.
> Maybe RPM would suit me better.  Does that try to build an RPM, or just
> adjust the install paths?  Maybe that would be better...

To build an RPM you need to specify -DRPM=distro (e.g. -DRPM=centos7).
If you only specify -DINSTALL_LAYOUT=RPM it'll be just that, only
install layout.

Regards,
Sergei
VP of MariaDB Server Engineering
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