Fine by me as well. Maybe modify the documentation to point to
mpl_install_std. How should we proceed?
-- Fernando
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 23:55, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 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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