[Pythonmac-SIG] Build/install framework Python in non-standard location

[Kevin Walzer]

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Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On 10/16/06, Kevin Walzer <kw at kevin-walzer.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to build a framework Python 2.5 that installs to a
>> non-standard location (/usr/local/python-unix-framework). The reason I'm
>> doing this is to link to an X11-based version of Tcl/Tk, and still be
>> able to use py2app for app deployment. (I have previously been able to
>> build a standard non-framework Python that links to an X11-based Tcl/Tk,
>> but the resulting binaries cannot be wrapped via py2app, and the other
>> wrapping tools--freeze, cx_freeze, pyinstaller--don't work well or at
>> all on OS X.)
>>
>> I thought that using these build flags would work:
>>
>> ./configure --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk
>> - --prefix=/usr/local/python-unix-framework
>>
>> Everything built fine, but when I ran sudo make install, everything
>> started getting placed in /Library/Frameworks. This isn't what I
>> wanted--that's where the official build of Python 2.5 from python.org is
>> installed (and which links to Tcl/Tk Aqua). I need the second
>> installation to test the X11 version of my application, and the official
>> installation to test the Aqua version.
>>
>> What do I need to hack to get the frameworks to install in my preferred
>> location, instead of the default? And why doesn't Python pick up the
>> ./configure flags correctly anyway?
> 
> It does pick up the configure flags correctly, but you need to pass
> the correct configure flags.
> 
> If you'd have used --help you'd have seen that --enable-framework
> takes a path, which defaults to /Library/Frameworks. If you want it to
> go somewhere else, give it a different path.
> 
> -bob
> 
> 
That worked, thanks.

For what it's worth, this method still installed the application bits in
/Application/MacPython 2.5--but I was able to restore the correct
versions from the official MacPython installer.


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Kevin Walzer
Poetic Code
http://www.kevin-walzer.com
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