Re: [Python-Dev] Hunting down configure script error

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Your posts are making it. It's just that everyone's ignoring you :) > > Christopher> I feel loved . > > Christopher> Seriously, why would somoene ignore this? this is > Christopher> obviously not a pebkac problem. > > I'm not sure what a "pe

Re: [Python-Dev] Hunting down configure script error

2006-10-24 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure what a "pebkac" problem is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEBKAC You'll learn some new nonsense every day ;-) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Hunting down configure script error

2006-10-24 Thread skip
>> Your posts are making it. It's just that everyone's ignoring you :) Christopher> I feel loved . Christopher> Seriously, why would somoene ignore this? this is Christopher> obviously not a pebkac problem. I'm not sure what a "pebkac" problem is. I will attempt to cha

Re: [Python-Dev] Hunting down configure script error

2006-10-24 Thread Christopher Taylor
> Your posts are making it. It's just that everyone's ignoring you :) I feel loved . Seriously, why would somoene ignore this? this is obviously not a pebkac problem. Respectfully, Christopher Taylor ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Hunting down configure script error

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Holden
Christopher Taylor wrote: > Ok, here's what I found: In addition to the configure script not > taking changing LIBDIR, Modules/getpath.c uses a hardcoded value for > static chat lib_python[] = "lib/python" VERSION; > which appears on line 134. So even if the configure script changes > LIBDIR it w

Re: [Python-Dev] Hunting down configure script error

2006-10-24 Thread skip
Christopher> I'm wondering if my posts are going through?? Yup. Sorry, but I've no useful comments to make on your problems though. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscri

Re: [Python-Dev] Hunting down configure script error

2006-10-24 Thread Christopher Taylor
Ok, here's what I found: In addition to the configure script not taking changing LIBDIR, Modules/getpath.c uses a hardcoded value for static chat lib_python[] = "lib/python" VERSION; which appears on line 134. So even if the configure script changes LIBDIR it won't do much good because the value

[Python-Dev] Hunting down configure script error

2006-10-24 Thread Christopher Taylor
Per my conversation with Martin v. Löwis on the python-list, I think I have found a problem with the configure script and Makefile.in. For Python 2.4.4 it seems that the arguement --libdir does not change the Makefile. Specifically I need this to change the libdir to /usr/lib64 for RH on a x86_64