Re: [Visualpython-users] Linux installation

[C A. R. <an...@ex...>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Bruce Sherwood <bas...@nc...> wrote:
> I wonder whether someone on the list can help me with a puzzle having
> to do with installing on Linux.
>
> In acinclude.m4 is the following fragment which attempts to identify
> where to install modules such as Visual:
>
> [am_cv_python_pythondir=`$PYTHON -c "from distutils import sysconfig;
> print(sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='$PYTHON_PREFIX').replace('\\\\\','/'))"
> 2>/dev/null ||
> echo "$PYTHON_PREFIX/lib/python$PYTHON_VERSION/dist-packages"`]
>
> When autogen.sh and configure are run before doing a make to build
> Visual, this fragment generates a reference to site-packages, which is
> unfortunate, because on Ubuntu with Python 2.x site-packages is not
> normally on the module search path.
>
> If on the other hand I execute the following I get a reference to
> dist-packages, as expected and desired:
>
> from distutils import sysconfig
> print(sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='$PYTHON_PREFIX')
>
> I can't understand why I'm getting a reference to site-packages in the
> autoconfigure machinery. I'm reluctant to hand-code "dist-packages"
> because for all I know other Linux distributions use site-packages and
> have site-packages on the module search path. (As an aside, I'm
> annoyed that Ubuntu has left site-packages off the search path, though
> I notice that it seems to be back on the search path for Python 3.)

this is only for ubuntu, right (appears that way)?

i don't run ubuntu, so i can't really test, but are you sure autotools
is picking up the same version of python that you get when you just
run `python` in the terminal?

i use archlinux, and recently we switched to py3k by default... so
i've had to deal with problems like that, and this feels like one of
those problems.  otherwise, there is something different in the
environments between your terminal and autotools, but i'm not sure how
to dump the ENV from within the macro.

C Anthony