Re: rpath alike feature for python scripts

2014-07-30 Thread dieter
dieter writes: > Olaf Hering writes: >> On Mon, Jul 28, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: >>> does this help: https://nixos.org/patchelf.html. It is not specific to >>> Python, though. >> >> No, this does not help because its not about patching the result. >> The questions is how to obtain the value wit

Re: rpath alike feature for python scripts

2014-07-29 Thread dieter
Olaf Hering writes: > On Mon, Jul 28, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: >> does this help: https://nixos.org/patchelf.html. It is not specific to >> Python, though. > > No, this does not help because its not about patching the result. > The questions is how to obtain the value with should be patched into

Re: rpath alike feature for python scripts

2014-07-29 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jul 28, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > does this help: https://nixos.org/patchelf.html. It is not specific to > Python, though. No, this does not help because its not about patching the result. The questions is how to obtain the value with should be patched into the result. Looks like I hav

Re: rpath alike feature for python scripts

2014-07-28 Thread dieter
Olaf Hering writes: > On Sat, Jul 26, dieter wrote: > >> The "binary" corresponds to a script. The script could have >> a function "setup_path" which enhances "sys.path" as appropriate >> and ensure that this function is called near its beginning. > > Yes, but how does it obtain the required valu

Re: rpath alike feature for python scripts

2014-07-28 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
- Original Message - > From: Olaf Hering > To: dieter > Cc: python-list@python.org > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 9:57 AM > Subject: Re: rpath alike feature for python scripts > > On Sat, Jul 26, dieter wrote: > >> The "binary" corresponds

Re: rpath alike feature for python scripts

2014-07-28 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Jul 26, dieter wrote: > The "binary" corresponds to a script. The script could have > a function "setup_path" which enhances "sys.path" as appropriate > and ensure that this function is called near its beginning. Yes, but how does it obtain the required values? In other words, at buildtim

Re: rpath alike feature for python scripts

2014-07-25 Thread dieter
Olaf Hering writes: > 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 > RPAT

rpath alike feature for python scripts

2014-07-25 Thread Olaf Hering
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 aski