PyXML setup question

[Harry George]

I find I need to explicitly set the HOME and PATH, in order to assure
it goes the right place.  I've made a script "py20"

  #!/bin/sh
  export PYTHONHOME=/usr/local
  export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.0:\
         /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages
  /usr/local/bin/python2.0 $@  

Then PyXML builds and installs ok with:

  py20 setup.py build
  py20 setup.py install

"Noel Rappin" <noel.rappin at openwave.com> writes:

> Attempting to install PyXML on a machine where Python2.0 is not in a
> standard location, I got the following error while running setup.py build:
> 
> ========
>   File "setup.py", line 218, in ?
>     scripts = ['scripts/xmlproc_parse', 'scripts/xmlproc_val']
>   File "/nfs/home/nrappin/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/core.py", line 138, in
> setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "/nfs/home/nrappin/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/dist.py", line 829, in
> run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "/nfs/home/nrappin/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/dist.py", line 849, in
> run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "/nfs/home/nrappin/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/command/build.py", line
> 106, in run
>     self.run_command(cmd_name)
>   File "/nfs/home/nrappin/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/cmd.py", line 328, in
> run_command
>     self.distribution.run_command(command)
>   File "/nfs/home/nrappin/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/dist.py", line 849, in
> run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "/nfs/home/nrappin/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py",
> line 200, in run
>     customize_compiler(self.compiler)
>   File "/nfs/home/nrappin/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 106,
> in customize_compiler
>     (cc, opt, ccshared, ldshared, so_ext) = \
>   File "/nfs/home/nrappin/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 368,
> in get_config_vars
>     func()
>   File "/nfs/home/nrappin/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 280,
> in _init_posix
>     raise DistutilsPlatformError, my_msg
> distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python installation: unable
> to open /usr/local/lib/python2.0/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
> =========
> 
> The weird thing about this is that even were Python in /user/local/lib, the
> directory is a) capitalized, and b) there is no /config/Makefile.
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas as to what I'm missing?
> 
> Noel
> 
> -------------
> Noel Rappin
> Openwave
> Principal Software Engineer, Internal Development
> Noel.Rappin at openwave.com
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> 
> 
> 

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