Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > >> The question pybuildir.txt apparently tries to solve is whether Python >> is running from the build dir or not. It's not whether Python was >> installed or not. > > That's the same, for all we're concerned. > But pybuilddir.txt does not only solve that problem. It also contains > the path to extension modules generated by setup.py, so that sys.path > can be setup appropriately at startup.
Would be easier to tell distutils to install the extensions in a fixed name dir (instead of using a platform and version in the name) and then use that getpath.c. distutils is pretty flexible at that :-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14657> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com