I see, but you must admit that having traceback messages that report
directories that don't exist it's not very nice. So if there is not any
real reason to avoid the --root flag, I think we have to prefer it to
--prefix as suggested by Daniel Macks.
Cheers,
Andrea.
On 1 Sep 2004, at 16:
Andrea Riciputi wrote:
I've tried --root=%d and I've got the same result for my packages. But
before changing all of them I'd prefer to know the opinion of someone
more experienced in Python...
Well, I'm not experienced, but I know how to run 'grep' :-)
It seems there are already some packages th
I've tried --root=%d and I've got the same result for my packages. But
before changing all of them I'd prefer to know the opinion of someone
more experienced in Python...
Any comment?
Andrea.
On 1 Sep 2004, at 14:14, Daniel E. Macks wrote:
I wonder if, in general, 'python setup.py instal
I wonder if, in general, 'python setup.py install --prefix=%i'
is the wrong idiom for the case where one wants to install in a
temp location and then copy to the actual runtime location later.
Looking at the output of 'python2.2 setup.py --help install', I see:
--prefixinstallation p
