[osg-submissions] API configurations in a seperate Config include file

[Jean-Sébastien Guay]

Hi Bob,

> oh, fyi, i never do installs, so that technique is out for me. 
> installing means putting stuff in a system-ish spot, and i like to have 
> have a clean development machine. another reason i don't install is so i 
> can build/test against multiple versions of osg. all i do is switch 
> where the my build cmake stuff looks to find osg headers and osg 
> binaries, and i'm off.

When running ccmake, you have a setting called CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. 
Just change that to install anywhere. I generally set it to some 
subdirectory of my home directory, as I don't like to install OSG to a 
system-wide location either, i.e.

CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = /home/guayj/local_apps/OpenSceneGraph

So in your case, even if you want to build/test against multiple 
versions of OSG, just set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to different values and 
you're off. :-) That way you can also not duplicate the build directory 
if you don't need to.

Then you could use 'make install'. Sure, it probably shouldn't be made a 
requirement, and some people are against 'make install' even if they 
don't have any reason to be, but there you are.

Hope this helps,

J-S
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