Stow and Python

Rev. Joe Doyle doyle at nebcorp.com
Tue Oct 1 22:19:51 EDT 2002


jason petrone uttered poignantly:
> 
> What?!?!  You disgrace your alma mater by forsaking encap.
> 
	I've tried to get my employer to switch to epkg, but there was a 
large installed base of stow packages when I got here; trust me, I'm all 
for encap :)

>
> I always deal with this problem by installing like this:
> 
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/
>   make install prefix=/usr/local/encap/python-2.3
>   epkg python
>   rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages
>   mv /usr/local/encap/python-2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages /usr/local/lib/python2.3/
> 
> That will put everything in the symlinked location except site-packages.
> 
> If you just want to add some extra location to the default module path, you
> can also add os.path.append('/tools/bar/') to site.py in the python lib
> directory. 
> 
	This is exactly what I wanted; thank you.


-Joe



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