On Apr 18, 7:39 pm, Anton Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 2007-04-18, Florian Demmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 12:36 pm, Florian Demmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi! > > >> I am doing a from source installation of Python 2.5 on some old Debian > >> machine. As the target directoy I want /opt/somename so i added it to > >> the configure like so: > > >> ./configure --prefix=/opt/somedir > > >> The following make works fine as far as I can see. Then the make > >> install also actually works and installs python in /opt/somedir with > >> all its subdirectoris (bin, lib, man, include). > >> The extensions (*.so) however get put in /usr/local/lib/... and there > >> also in the wrong python directoy: 2.4 > > Basically I had the same problem(s). > > >> (How) can I change the install_dir for the extensions? > >> Why does it use python2.4 anyway?! What env var or else is set here > >> that I cannot find? > > I've patched setup.py as follows: > > --- setup.py.orig Thu Aug 10 01:42:18 2006 > +++ setup.py Mon Dec 25 19:05:29 2006 > @@ -147,6 +147,14 @@ > if ext.name in sys.builtin_module_names: > self.extensions.remove(ext) > > + # so -lpython2.5 works in the build > + ext.library_dirs.append('.') > + > + # so shared libs requiring libpython2.5.so work > + py_instdir = os.environ.get("INSTDIR_PYTHON", None) > + if py_instdir: > + ext.library_dirs.append(os.path.join(py_instdir, 'lib')) > + > if platform != 'mac': > # Parse Modules/Setup and Modules/Setup.local to figure out which > # modules are turned on in the file. > > Then you have to add INSTDIR_PYTHON to your shell environment, i.e. > > INSTDIR_PYTHON=/opt/somedir ; export INSTDIR_PYTHON > > or whatever your shell requires. > > This works for me. Hope it helps,
nice workaround (and it does work), thank you... at least until when i try to install Python2.6 and forget about that again ;) since i was not quite satisfied by the solution (i will have to install py25 from source on a customer's system that i dont know much about yet at a later time and that _has_ to work then), i searched for more reasons why it fails in the first place... and actually found something: ~/.pydistutils.cfg --> install_lib = /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages ... uncommented it and ran make install again --> works! :D br Florian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list