Hello all, I'm currently working on a software package that is going to be distributed in binary form (with accompanying source) for lot of different unixes (Linux, AIX, HP-UX and others). Parts of the package are written in Python... so we are going to want to distribute our own version of python.
Right now we are just distributing the Python tarball and building it at install time. This works ok, but we are running into some problems on some machines with weird default installs (DEC Alphas in particular).... some of them won't build all the python modules we want (although our in house machines will). What I want to do is compile python statically into binaries and then plop them wherever our customers choose to do an install (we will provide the source tarballs on a cd as well). The problem we are running into is that when we do this python continues to think it's still installed where it was initially compiled and not where it has been placed (which causes some problems with traceback and some other functions). Is there a way to make a relocateable python binary... that is... a python installation that won't care where it is on the machine... and won't care if it gets put somewhere else besides / ? Sorry for the long winded post... just want to make sure you understand my problem. Thanks in advance for any help! Derek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
