Steve Holden wrote: >>>Is there a way to make a relocateable python binary... that is... a >>>python installation that won't care where it is on the machine... and >>>won't care if it gets put somewhere else besides / ? >> >> >> the standard CPython interpreter is 100% "relocatable". If you think >> it isn't, you have to be a bit more specific. >> > Is it possible that you are using "relocatable" in the standard sense of > "code can be located > anywhere in physical memory", where the OP is using the same term to mean > "can live anywhere in > the filestore"?
nope. > I suspect the problem the OP is seeing is because the --prefix configuration > parameter will cause > an interpreter to look in a specific place for standard libraries. Clearly if > you "relocate" the > libraries to another directory entirely then an interpreter without any > further nouse (and no > symbolic links to help it) is going to crap out badly. clearly? [EMAIL PROTECTED] build] mv python2.3 /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] build] mkdir /tmp/lib [EMAIL PROTECTED] build] mv lib /tmp/lib/python2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] build] cd /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ./python2.3 >>> import sys >>> sys.prefix '/tmp' >>> sys.path ['', '/tmp/lib/python23.zip', '/tmp/lib/python2.3', ...] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ mkdir spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ mv python2.3 spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ mv lib spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cd spam/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam]$ ./python2.3 >>> import sys >>> sys.prefix '/tmp/spam' >>> sys.path ['', '/tmp/spam/lib/python23.zip', '/tmp/spam/lib/python2.3', ...] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam]$ mkdir bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam]$ mv python2.3 bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam]$ bin/python2.3 >>> import sys >>> sys.prefix '/tmp/spam' >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam]$ cd bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ./python2.3 >>> import sys >>> sys.prefix '/tmp/spam' [EMAIL PROTECTED] fredrik]$ export PATH=/tmp/spam/bin:$PATH [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ cd [EMAIL PROTECTED] fredrik]$ python2.3 >>> import sys >>> sys.prefix '/tmp/spam' >>> and so on... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
