Re: [Visualpython-users] Linux installation

I should clarify that both versions of my pythons return site-packages
when run from the command prompt

Jacob


On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 22:05 -0700, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> It does seem to be using the desired version of Python, as the full
> path created is
> 
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages
> 
> which contains the intended python2.6. I also tried replacing $PYTHON
> with python$PYTHON_VERSION and still got site-packages. It's really
> hard to understand how sysconfig.get_python_lib can act differently
> within the autoconfigure environment.
> 
> Bruce Sherwood
> 
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:53 PM, C Anthony Risinger <an...@ex...> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Bruce Sherwood <bas...@nc...> wrote:
> >> I wonder whether someone on the list can help me with a puzzle having
> >> to do with installing on Linux.
> >>
> >> In acinclude.m4 is the following fragment which attempts to identify
> >> where to install modules such as Visual:
> >>
> >> [am_cv_python_pythondir=`$PYTHON -c "from distutils import sysconfig;
> >> print(sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='$PYTHON_PREFIX').replace('\\\\\','/'))"
> >> 2>/dev/null ||
> >> echo "$PYTHON_PREFIX/lib/python$PYTHON_VERSION/dist-packages"`]
> >>
> >> When autogen.sh and configure are run before doing a make to build
> >> Visual, this fragment generates a reference to site-packages, which is
> >> unfortunate, because on Ubuntu with Python 2.x site-packages is not
> >> normally on the module search path.
> >>
> >> If on the other hand I execute the following I get a reference to
> >> dist-packages, as expected and desired:
> >>
> >> from distutils import sysconfig
> >> print(sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='$PYTHON_PREFIX')
> >>
> >> I can't understand why I'm getting a reference to site-packages in the
> >> autoconfigure machinery. I'm reluctant to hand-code "dist-packages"
> >> because for all I know other Linux distributions use site-packages and
> >> have site-packages on the module search path. (As an aside, I'm
> >> annoyed that Ubuntu has left site-packages off the search path, though
> >> I notice that it seems to be back on the search path for Python 3.)
> >
> > this is only for ubuntu, right (appears that way)?
> >
> > i don't run ubuntu, so i can't really test, but are you sure autotools
> > is picking up the same version of python that you get when you just
> > run `python` in the terminal?
> >
> > i use archlinux, and recently we switched to py3k by default... so
> > i've had to deal with problems like that, and this feels like one of
> > those problems.  otherwise, there is something different in the
> > environments between your terminal and autotools, but i'm not sure how
> > to dump the ENV from within the macro.
> >
> > C Anthony
> >
> 
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