[Visualpython-users] new installer glitches

[Arnd B. <arn...@we...>]

Hi,

I just tried out the new installer - excellent - many thanks for this
big improvement!

I encountered two glitches when doing the following:

tar xzf Sources/visual-2.0.3-2003-06-07.tar.gz
cd visual-2.0.3
export PHOME=/home/baecker/morepub/PYTHON/
./configure --prefix=${PHOME}
make
make install

1.) As I used
  export PHOME=/home/baecker/morepub/PYTHON/
instead of
  export PHOME=/home/baecker/morepub/PYTHON
(notice the missing back-slash at the end of the previous line!)
I got the following error message

####################
checking the python module search path ... ['',
'/home/scratch/baecker/INSTALL_SOFT/PythonNeu/visual-2.0.3',
'/home/baecker/morepub/PYTHON/lib/python2.2',
'/home/baecker/morepub/PYTHON/lib/python2.2/plat-linux2',
'/home/baecker/morepub/PYTHON/lib/python2.2/lib-tk',
'/home/baecker/morepub/PYTHON/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload',
'/home/baecker/morepub/PYTHON/lib/python2.2/site-packages',
'/home/baecker/morepub/PYTHON/lib/python2.2/site-packages/Numeric']
configure: error:
"/home/baecker/morepub/PYTHON//lib/python2.2/site-packages is
not in the python module search path.
 See the Python 2.3  Installing Python Modules manual, section 4.1 for
details"
#####################

The "//" prevents configure to see that it is in the  python module search
path.
(Surely, mea culpa, but hard to spot ;-)
Also the reference to Python 2.3 might be misleading, in the sense
that someone could think that Python 2.3 is necessary for the installation
of Visual.


2.) The second glitch occurs for "make install":

/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 vpython /bin/vpython
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/bin/vpython': Permission
denied
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/scratch/baecker/INSTALL_SOFT/PythonNeu/visual-2.0.3/cvisual'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

As a hack I changed the Makefile in the "cvisual" subdirectory,
(Namely bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin to bindir = ${prefix}/bin
but I don't know configure at all to provide the correct fix here ...)

Best,

Arnd