At 02:57 PM 3/9/2010 -0500, hari jayaram wrote:
Hi
I am installing setuptools using the --prefix option it complains
the directory does not exist even though it does. The install works
however when I use the --instal-dir option as it recommends.
macbook-pro-17:~ hari$ sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
--prefix=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages
That's because the directory you gave is not a *prefix*, it's an
installation directory.
A prefix, in distutils terms, is generally the top-level directory
under which Python's lib, bin, and other directories are located.
So, the correct --prefix would be
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6" in this
case. (Notice the absence of lib/python2.6/site-packages.)
[Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/lib/python2.6/site-packages/test-easy-install-79530.pth'
If you look closely at this path, you'll see that when the distutils
creates an install directory from your prefix (which is already an
installation directory), you end up trying to install to a
'lib/python2.6/site-packages/lib/python2.6/site-packages'
directory. That's because when you give a prefix, distutils decides
what subdirectories of the prefix to install things in, and it can't
tell that you already gave it a subdirectory of the prefix.
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