Re: [Plplot-devel] prova.py example

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Trying to clean out my inbox and finally getting back to this.

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Maurice LeBrun wrote:
 > 
 > > OK, I found it on my RH7.3 system in the python1.5 install.  But
 > > unfortunately, not under python2.2.  Probably the biggest flaw of RH7.3 in my
 > > book is this split python distribution.
 > 
 > I agree 100 per cent.  When making the RH 7.3 rpm, I got around the RH split
 > python problem by forcing a number of variables for plplot-5.1.0.  I haven't
 > tried this for CVS HEAD, but I believe it should work since I copied most of
 > plplot/cf/sysloc.in to plplot/sysloc.in where these variables should
 > override the python search that ordinarily fails completely on RH 7.3
 > because of their split system.
 > 
 > PY_VERSION=python -c 'import sys ; print sys.version[0:3]'
 > export
 > PYTHON_INC_DIR=/usr/include/python${PY_VERSION}/
 > export PYTHON_MOD_DIR=/usr/lib/python${PY_VERSION}/
 > export PYTHON_CFG_DIR=${PYTHON_MOD_DIR}/config
 > export PYTHON_NUM_DIR=${PYTHON_INC_DIR}/Numeric/
 > export PYTHON_MACH_DIR=${PYTHON_MOD_DIR}/site-packages
 > export PYTHON_DIR=${PYTHON_MACH_DIR}
 > ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-double --enable-dyndrivers --enable-gnome
 > --ena
 > ble-ntk --disable-linuxvga

Unfortunately this doesn't work.  Putting:

# Fixes to work with python 1.5 under RH 7.3

enable_python="yes"
PY_VERSION=`python -c 'import sys ; print sys.version[0:3]'`
export PYTHON_INC_DIR=/usr/include/python${PY_VERSION}/ 
export PYTHON_MOD_DIR=/usr/lib/python${PY_VERSION}/ 
export PYTHON_CFG_DIR=${PYTHON_MOD_DIR}/config 
export PYTHON_NUM_DIR=${PYTHON_INC_DIR}/Numeric/ 
export PYTHON_MACH_DIR=${PYTHON_MOD_DIR}/site-packages 
export PYTHON_DIR=${PYTHON_MACH_DIR} 

in my ~/config/cf_plplot.in, gives the following line in
bindings/python/Makefile: 

ourpythondir = ${prefix}//usr/lib/python1.5//site-packages

so since I have set prefix to $HOME/tools, this results in absolute nonsense.
The culprit is:

ourpythondir = ${prefix}/@PYTHON_INSTDIR@

in bindings/python/Makefile.am.  How to fix this?

-- 
Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)