In article <f80f3fdd-b12f-42d5-bb05-4a4b180fa...@gmail.com>, Evert Rol <evert....@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to install Python 2.6 from source on Mac OS X.5, in its own > directory using a framework install. That goes fine, up to the point > where it wants to install the applications that come with it (eg, the > Wish shell): it tries to install things into /Applications, instead of > eg <prefix>/Applications. > Here's my configure line (the flags are there just to let it find my > own installed readline): > > CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib ./configure --prefix=/sw -- > enable-shared --enable-framework=/sw/Library/Frameworks --with- > readline=/sw --with-pth CC=gcc-4.2 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 > > > And the last part of the output of 'make install': > > ../python.exe ./scripts/BuildApplet.py \ > --destroot "" \ > --python=/sw/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ > Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python`test -f "/sw/Library/ > Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Resources/Python.app/Contents/ > MacOS/Python-32" && echo "-32"` \ > --output "/sw/Applications/Python 2.6/Build Applet.app" \ > ./scripts/BuildApplet.py > cd PythonLauncher && make install DESTDIR= > test -d "/Applications/Python 2.6" || mkdir -p "/Applications/Python > 2.6" > mkdir: /Applications/Python 2.6: Permission denied > make[2]: *** [install] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [install_PythonLauncher] Error 2 > make: *** [frameworkinstallapps] Error 2 > > Is there an option on the configure line that I need to set, or > something in setup.py? Or perhaps hack the Makefile?
FWIW, the OS X build-installer.py script handles this by specifying a DESTDIR on the make install steps rather than including a --prefix on the configure. See Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
