Re: [IMP-dev] NBL cleanup and other small patches

[Ben Webb <>]

Daniel Russel wrote:
> Things should be as simple as possible. Splitting a set of source that  
> is maintained by the same set of people into two libraries just makes  
> it more complicated. If the licensing is different or is the sali lab  
> will not support a bit of code once someone graduates, then it makes  
> sense to separate it. Or, as a much rarer case, if some block of code  
> is so huge that it slows down linking noticeably.

impEM links against EMBED, which is under different licensing to IMP.

> On a mac the horrible command
> scons embed=$(HOME)/src/EMbed -j $(NUMPROCS) modeller=$(MODINSTALLSVN)  
> usecgal=1\
> 	 release=1 install prefix=$(HOME)/fs\
>          pyextdir=$(HOME)/fs/lib/python2.5/site-packages \
>          pythondir=$(HOME)/fs/lib/python2.5/site-packages impEM-install

You shouldn't need to specify pyextdir or pythondir unless something is 
screwed up somewhere, since they should by default live under prefix. 
And most of that other stuff you can just stick in config.py and never 
look at again.

> but since scons  
> doesn't make the needed calls to install_name_tool you can't link  
> against the installed libraries. Presumably scons will fix this at  
> some point.

Sure, that's easy to fix, of course.

	Ben
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