On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Rob <rob.nikan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 28, 2:09 pm, Rob <rob.nikan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Python on my system is behaving badly, so I want to create a new >> install from source code. I have OS X 10.6.2, I downloaded the source >> code (Python-2.6.5.tar.bz2) and did the usual, ./configure, make, sudo >> make install. Build went fine. But on install, why is it putting >> things is my home directory? > > Doh! Nevermind... I had created a ~/.pydistutils.cfg file a > couple weeks ago, for some stupid reason I can't remember. I forgot > to delete that file. It's contents were: > > [install] > install_lib = ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages > install_scripts = ~/bin > > So it was overriding the normal setup.py behavior. > > Rob
On OS X, you're probably going to want to do a Framework install instead of just a normal build. (If you don't do this, you won't be able to make a GUI). ./configure --enable-framework make sudo make install That will generate the app bundles for you (IDLE, Python Launcher, and so on) and make a framework in /Library/Frameworks. For more information about the Mac-specific options, look at the README inside the Mac folder of the source. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
