Bugs item #1495488, was opened at 2006-05-26 12:19 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by theaney You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1495488&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Build Group: Python 2.5 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Tim Heaney (theaney) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: make altinstall installs pydoc Initial Comment: I did the "make altinstall" rather than the "make install" as suggested on http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/ This worked great, creating a /usr/local/bin/python2.5 which doesn't clash with my /usr/bin/python. However, it also created a /usr/local/bin/pydoc which did clash with my /usr/bin/pydoc. I just removed it and all is well. Should altinstall not create pydoc? It could create pydoc2.5 rather than pydoc, but then the shebang line would have to be changed to python2.5. What about smtpd.py, idle, and python-config, which were also created by altinstall? They don't currently conflict with anything I have for Python 2.4, but the potential is there for the same problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Tim Heaney (theaney) Date: 2006-06-22 00:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=827666 Sorry, I haven't had a chance to look at this again. I just installed Python-2.5b1 and it's still the same way. Here's what I did to fix things up after the make altinstall... # cd /usr/local/bin # for file in pydoc idle smtpd.py python-config; do mv $file ${file}2.5 sed -i 's@/usr/local/bin/python@/usr/local/bin/python2.5@' ${file}2.5 done Now, how to fix up the Makefile.pre and setup.py so this isn't necessary... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tim Heaney (theaney) Date: 2006-06-06 11:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=827666 I'm not sure I know how. It looks like the downloaded files have the following shebang lines Tools/scripts/pydoc => #!/usr/bin/env python Tools/scripts/idle => #! /usr/bin/env python Lib/smtpd.py => #! /usr/bin/env python Misc/python-config.in => [EMAIL PROTECTED]@/python whereas the installed files have /usr/local/bin/pydoc => #!/usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/bin/idle => #!/usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/bin/smtpd.py => #!/usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/bin/python-config => #!/usr/local/bin/python so they're already getting rewritten somewhere. We want both their names and their shebang lines to have the version /usr/local/bin/pydoc2.5 => #!/usr/local/bin/python2.5 /usr/local/bin/idle2.5 => #!/usr/local/bin/python2.5 /usr/local/bin/smtpd.py2.5 => #!/usr/local/bin/python2.5 /usr/local/bin/python-config2.5 => #!/usr/local/bin/python2.5 It seems that python-config appears in the Makefile, so adding something like sed -e "s,@BINDIR@,$(BINDIR)," < $(srcdir)/Misc/python-config.in >python-config$(VERSION)$(EXE) $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) python-config $(BINDIR)/python-config$(VERSION)$(EXE) rm python-config to Makefile.pre.in in an altlibainstall section or something might be all we need for that. The others are named in setup.py # Scripts to install scripts = ['Tools/scripts/pydoc', 'Tools/scripts/idle', 'Lib/smtpd.py'] but I haven't worked out where they get rewritten or installed yet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-06-04 20:02 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 You are right: altinstall shouldn't overwrite these conflicting files. For idle and pydoc, I would think that altinstall should install version-specific copies - users actually might want to run an idle or pydoc associated with a specific version, likewise for python-config. I'm uncertain why smtpd.py is installed at all. Would you be willing to work on a patch? You are right that the shebang line should get updated during the installation, too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1495488&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
