Framework installation of 2.6 on OS X, with specified prefix

[Ned Deily]

In article <F80F3FDD-B12F-42D5-BB05-4A4B180FAC1F at gmail.com>,
 Evert Rol <evert.rol at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Python 2.6 from source on Mac OS X.5, in its own  
> directory using a framework install. That goes fine, up to the point  
> where it wants to install the applications that come with it (eg, the  
> Wish shell): it tries to install things into /Applications, instead of  
> eg <prefix>/Applications.
> Here's my configure line (the flags are there just to let it find my  
> own installed readline):
> 
> CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib ./configure --prefix=/sw -- 
> enable-shared --enable-framework=/sw/Library/Frameworks --with- 
> readline=/sw --with-pth CC=gcc-4.2  MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
> 
> 
> And the last part of the output of 'make install':
> 
> ../python.exe ./scripts/BuildApplet.py \
> 		--destroot "" \
> 		--python=/sw/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ 
> Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python`test -f "/sw/Library/ 
> Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Resources/Python.app/Contents/ 
> MacOS/Python-32" && echo "-32"`  \
> 		--output "/sw/Applications/Python 2.6/Build Applet.app" \
> 		./scripts/BuildApplet.py
> cd PythonLauncher && make install DESTDIR=
> test -d "/Applications/Python 2.6" || mkdir -p "/Applications/Python  
> 2.6"
> mkdir: /Applications/Python 2.6: Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [install] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [install_PythonLauncher] Error 2
> make: *** [frameworkinstallapps] Error 2
> 
> Is there an option on the configure line that I need to set, or  
> something in setup.py? Or perhaps hack the Makefile?

FWIW, the OS X build-installer.py script handles this by specifying a 
DESTDIR on the make install steps rather than including a --prefix on 
the configure.   See Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org