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. -- 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.
