Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi, > > On 7/9/06, Robert Kern <robert.kern <at> gmail.com> wrote: > Christian Kristukat wrote:> Robert Kern <robert.kern <at> gmail.com> writes:>>> I believe that Debian recently changed its configuration to default to > >> /usr/local (for good reason!). Perhaps that is causing what you see.>> I just found out that this is feature/bug of opensuse 10.1. I'm beginning to> like it but can you tell what you have to do to force it install to /usr/lib? > > > Suse does that, but so does python by default if you compile it from scratch;
I think every autoconf managed source package out there will install itself to /usr/local if you don't specify the --prefix. So this is not a python thing. > Suse is just following the path of least resistence. I don't like it much, I > think distributions should leave /usr/local empty, but when you compile your > own stuff it should arguably end up in /usr/local by default. The python modules shipped with suse are installed where python resides and that is in /usr. But beginning with suse 10.1 user installed packages go to /usr/local. What I don't like about that method so much is, that when you build a rpm with distutils it gets installed in /usr/local/, too, even though the system does handle third party rpms in the systems rpm database. Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
