Hello, ELF binaries have a concept of RPATH, that means the interpreter looks for libraries first in a list of directories provided by the binary before falling back to default system directories.
Since python scripts also do some sort of library loading, but lack an RPATH like feature, I'm asking here how to simulate it. The specific case I'm trying to address is the pygrub script which is included in the xen-tools package. This script makes use of other python libs provided by xen-tools. If xen is configured with --prefix=/some/where the python libs will be installed (in my case) in "/some/where/lib64/python2.6/site-packages". However, there seems to be no way in advance to know that exact location. If it would be known at build time, then something could tweak the pygrub script and insert the searchpath below "/some/where". And is this the right approach anyway? +sys.path.insert(0, "/some/where/lib64/python2.6/site-packages") After browsing the disutils documentation its not clear if setup.py has a way to help with this. Here is a pointer to a discussion I started a while ago, and the sources: http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-04/msg02931.html http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=tree;f=tools/pygrub http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=tree;f=tools/python Thanks for any pointers. Olaf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
