[issue19968] Using DESTDIR breaks sys.path

2013-12-13 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
Quanah Gibson-Mount added the comment: Ok, so the general idea is to be able to install your software in a specific location and then symlink it back into another location (like /usr/local). This allows quick and easy software version swapping. I've used it to do things like test mariadb vs

[issue19968] Using DESTDIR breaks sys.path

2013-12-13 Thread Éric Araujo
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[issue19968] Using DESTDIR breaks sys.path

2013-12-12 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: sys.path is computed dynamically at run time. Try moving the install directory around on your filesystem, and you'll see. I'm not familiar with stow, and I don't know if anyone else on the team is either, so you may have to explain your issue in more detail.

[issue19968] Using DESTDIR breaks sys.path

2013-12-12 Thread Eric Snow
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[issue19968] Using DESTDIR breaks sys.path

2013-12-12 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
Quanah Gibson-Mount added the comment: Or to summarize a bit differently -- the point of DESTDIR is to allow you to install your software in some location other than what was specified with --prefix, without losing the --prefix settings. -- ___ Pyt

[issue19968] Using DESTDIR breaks sys.path

2013-12-12 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
New submission from Quanah Gibson-Mount: I found that when trying to use Python with the "stow" utility, that it incorrectly hard codes the full DESTDIR path into python, instead of the relative portion of the DESTDIR path. As a result, DESTDIR usage is fundamentally broken in relation to all