At 09:42 PM 9/13/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > At 06:43 PM 9/13/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote: > > > >>My request is that if --prefix is provided, then the value of > >>--site-dirs be calculated from it. > > > > I'd suggest using PYTHONHOME instead, since that will actually make Python > > run from that directory. > >That's not what these users need, however. Python is installed to /usr >and the standard library and all of the third-party packages that are >part of Debian's packaging system go under /usr/lib/python2.x/ . >Third-party packages that are compiled by the user go under >/usr/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages/ . The way everybody accomplishes >this is by setting --prefix=/usr/local for distutils.
Well, as long as it ends up on sys.path *and* processes .pth files, it should be fine. Question: are these /usr/local/* versions on sys.path *before* the /usr versions? Or after? > > However, my main concern is not making these path > > calculations any more screwy than they already have to be, as they are > > already quite complex. So, if you can suggest a patch to implement your > > desired behavior that doesn't break anything else and doesn't make my head > > explode upon reviewing it, I'll be happy to check it in. :) > >The path part isn't hard. If --prefix or --home is provided, the install >command will calculate the path for you and place it in >install.install_lib . The hard part seems to be figuring out whether the >user explicitly provided --prefix or --install-lib or neither. I'll take your word for it. :) Again, I'll be happy to look at a patch, but I don't have the bandwidth to figure out this particular setup. One possible hack: assume that any directory on sys.path whose basename is "site-packages" is a valid --site-dir. The worst that can do is fail. :) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
