Re: [Plplot-devel] prova.py example

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

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

See plplot/rpm/plplot_redhat7.3.spec.

Of course it is just a workaround, but it may be a necessary one since I am
not sure we should expect sysloc.in to be able to deal with a split python
version system.

Hope this helps.

Alan

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