Re: Install tangle

2018-01-14 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> Assuming this is a newly-installed system, /usr/local/lib/python2.7/ > dist-packages does not exist. Since it does not exist, it does not show up > in sys.path. Thanks. That's the example I was looking for. There is another example based on that which is when the user doesn't actually inten

Re: Install tangle

2018-01-14 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 01/14/2018 10:09 PM, Hal Murray wrote: >> 1) Does configure bail if installing the python libs might not work? No. > >> I think #1 always has to be no. Otherwise, you'll break tons of working >> setups, including but not limited to package builds. > > Could you please say more. > > I'm assu

Re: Install tangle

2018-01-14 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 01/12/2018 09:44 PM, Richard Laager wrote: > 1. Determine the directory: >$ python -c 'import sys ; print(sys.path)[1]' >For example: >/usr/lib/python2.7 I was incorrect here. Use this instead: 1. Determine the directory: $ python -c 'from distutils import sysconfig ; print(sys

Re: Install tangle

2018-01-14 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Thanks. > 1) Does configure bail if installing the python libs might not work? No. > I think #1 always has to be no. Otherwise, you'll break tons of working > setups, including but not limited to package builds. Could you please say more. I'm assuming that PYTHONPATH or xxx.pth would fix the