On 03/04/2011 09:09 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> Eric Firing<efir...@hawaii.edu> writes:
>
>> What is the rationale for removing the --prefix argument? It doesn't
>> prevent one from installing in the standard location.
>
> The $PREFIX variables is used by make.osx for two different purposes:
> (1) the dependencies are installed under $PREFIX and the extensions are
> compiled to use them from there, in order to avoid version mismatches
> with libraries in /usr, /opt, etc.; (2) the "setup.py install" command
> is given --prefix $PREFIX as an argument so that matplotlib gets
> installed in a non-standard location.
>
> I like just (1), so to install matplotlib I do "make -n mpl_install"
> and edit the command to remove the prefix. Or, actually, edit it to be
> "setupegg.py develop". The Makefile sets a bunch of environment
> variables that are needed for the compilation to succeed with the
> downloaded dependencies.
>
> How about putting the environment assignments in just one place and
> creating multiple installation targets, maybe like this:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> run_cmd:
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PKG_CONFIG_PATH} \
> (etc) \
> ${PYTHON} ${CMD}
>
> mpl_build:
> run_cmd CMD="setup.py build"
>
> mpl_install:
> run_cmd CMD="setup.py install --prefix=${PREFIX}"
>
> mpl_install_std:
> run_cmd CMD="setup.py install"
>
> mpl_develop:
> run_cmd CMD="setupegg.py develop"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
That looks to me like a good solution.
Eric
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