On Dec 21, 10:04 am, Sebastian Haase <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Congratulations to the new release! > > After a quick setup.py install on my amd64 Debian I have a few > comments - found maybe a bug: > > I have a ~/.pydistutils.cfg file: > sha...@iris:~/qq/sympy-0.6.6: cat ~/.pydistutils.cfg > [install] > #install_lib = ~/sebPy/py-lib > install_lib = ~/sebPy/lib > install_scripts = ~/sebPy/bin > > but I get this error message at the very end of setup.py install: > running install_data > copying doc/man/isympy.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1 > error: /usr/share/man/man1/isympy.1: Permission denied > > is this a bug or a miss-configuaration on my side !? > > Also I noticed that sympy installs into the bin directory (besides isympy): > ~/sebPy/bin/test > ~/sebPy/bin/doctest > > Are those quite "generic" names for a (global) bin directory !?
I don't know whether custom installation directories ever worked, and I never tried it. Possible that it's just broken for a long time. You might have a look at our setup.py, I don't know if we do something wrong. Actually it's up to distutils to install into the correct directory. Vinzent Vinzent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
