[Distutils] Re: problems on irix
Randall Hopper
aa8vb@yahoo.com
Mon Dec 18 09:27:02 2000
Pete J Shinners:
|i am using the distutils that comes with the python2.0 release.
|on irix there seems to be a problem with variable name expansion.
|all the installations go to funky directories like this...
|
|$platbase/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages
|$base/include/python$py_version_short/$dist_name
...
|btw, my python is installed to /usr/local, so these paths should
|be expanding to something like
...
|has this been fixed? can it be fixed soon?
I'm running Python 2.0 distutils on IRIX with no problems. Distutils
builds install to the correct directory (the one I installed Python to).
I'm one satisfied customer. Note that I built with --prefix and
--exec-prefix, but that's probably not relevent.
Do a "which python" (or "whence python" for sh/ksh/bash). Are you sure
you're running "python setup.py install" using the python binary you think
you are?
Also, run that python and try:
> python
Python 2.0 (#2, Nov 1 2000, 12:06:44) [C] on irix646-n32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.prefix
/home/rhh/software/python2
>>> print sys.exec_prefix
/home/rhh/software/python2/PLATFORM/plat-irix646-n32
You probably should read:
http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/inst.pdf
and check out the --home and --prefix options. Also read up on config
files. Sounds like they might be useful to you.
Good luck.
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Randall Hopper
aa8vb@yahoo.com