Ah, you're right. I didn't realize that --prefix had to come after install. It was just by accident that I happened to do it in that order myself.
I'd still consider this to be a bug in distutils btw. Aaron Meurer On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ... > >>>>> with no problems. The --prefix option was not recognized. >>>>> The system Python for 10.6.7 is 2.7. >>> >>> The --prefix command is not recognized and it's not present in --help. >> >> This must be some issue with your distutils. I did "./setup.py >> install --prefix=~/Desktop/sympy" and it installed it in that > > Sorry, I misunderstood. setup.py --prefix ... install (as I thought you first > you suggested) does not work but setup.py install --prefix... does work > fine. Also, > ../setup.py test > passes when run from that directory. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
