On Apr 10, 8:18 pm, "P.J. Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > At 04:09 PM 4/10/2009 -0700, Buck wrote: > > >I'm trying to separate platform-specific and platform-independent > >files on my Python installation. ./configure --prefix --exec-prefix > >does this nicely for Python proper, but modules seem to be a whole > >different story. > > > >From my testing, distutils handles this OK, putting "pure" python > >modules into the --prefix directory and modules with binary .so's into > >the --execprefix. I guess it defaults the install-platbase to be the > >same as the --exec-prefix used in configure? > > >When running easy_install on the same packages (elementtree and > >numpy), they all go into the platform-independant area. > > >Is this expected? > > Eggs that are platform-dependent include the platform information in > their filename; there isn't any support for putting them in different > directories as well.
I see the kernel version and architecture, but this is insufficient; RedHat 4 and RedHat 5 both use a 2.6 kernel, but the difference in provided libraries are sufficient to make many (most?) "impure" libraries stop working ( numpy, python-ldap, and hashlib for examples). easy_install apparently knows when packages are platform-dependant, and the necessary directory is sys.exec_prefix (or maybe better: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(plat_specific=1) ), so this seems like an easy change. Would a patch be accepted? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
