On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Vinzent Steinberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

The last point was more referring to the (non custom) installation of
bin files named "test" and "doctest" - which seems like a very generic
name, i.e. how about sympy_test, and sympy_doctest !?

-S.

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