Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote: > Maybe it is because Python picks stuff from site-packages first ? (not sure)
Maybe so. Anytime setuptools is involved, I suspect just that. That bug is still in the setuptools tracker. But I created a Makefile with just this in it: all: python -c "import os; print os.environ.get('PYTHONPATH')" python -c "import sys; print sys.path" python -m jcc --version And then I do a "make all" on it. The last line errs out, but does so with the right stack trace, if PYTHONPATH is set. What I don't understand is what the difference is between this and the PyLucene Makefile. Bill /tmp/x 91 % make all python -c "import os; print os.environ.get('PYTHONPATH')" None python -c "import sys; print sys.path" ['', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/JCC-1.9-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/lucene-2.4.0_649619-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/vobject-0.8.1c-py2.5.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/python_dateutil-1.4.1-py2.5.egg', '/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0', '/opt/uplib-1.7.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/opt/uplib-1.7.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL', '/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL'] python -m jcc --version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 95, in run_module filename, loader, alter_sys) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 52, in _run_module_code mod_name, mod_fname, mod_loader) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 32, in _run_code exec code in run_globals File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/JCC-1.9-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/jcc/__init__.py", line 28, in <module> cpp.jcc(sys.argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/JCC-1.9-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/jcc/cpp.py", line 308, in jcc version = args[i] IndexError: list index out of range make: *** [all] Error 255 greta : /tmp/x 89 % setenv PYTHONPATH /opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages greta : /tmp/x 90 % make all python -c "import os; print os.environ.get('PYTHONPATH')" /opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages python -c "import sys; print sys.path" ['', '/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg', '/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages/vobject-0.8.1c-py2.5.egg', '/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages/JCC-2.4.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages/lucene-2.9.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/JCC-1.9-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/lucene-2.4.0_649619-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/vobject-0.8.1c-py2.5.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/python_dateutil-1.4.1-py2.5.egg', '/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packa ges/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0', '/opt/uplib-1.7.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/opt/uplib-1.7.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL', '/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL'] python -m jcc --version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 95, in run_module filename, loader, alter_sys) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 52, in _run_module_code mod_name, mod_fname, mod_loader) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 32, in _run_code exec code in run_globals File "/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages/JCC-2.4.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/jcc/__init__.py", line 27, in <module> import jcc.__main__ File "/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages/JCC-2.4.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/jcc/__main__.py", line 88, in <module> cpp.jcc(sys.argv) File "/opt/uplib-1.7.9/lib/python2.5/site-packages/JCC-2.4.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/jcc/cpp.py", line 337, in jcc version = args[i] IndexError: list index out of range make: *** [all] Error 255 /tmp/x 91 % > I think this whole mess would be a lot simpler if you used virtualenv.py. > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv > > It lets you do what you're trying to do - install stuff without > affecting a user's install, yet override some of their libs in a > special place inheriting from their setup otherwise if you so choose. No thanks. Just more complexity to manage. I'd like to get setuptools out of the mix. It's easy_install.pth that's screwing up the sys.path order. Bill