Re: [Visualpython-users] compiling vpython 4 (was Crash when quit)

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

There are two different issues: where is Python, and where will visual 
be installed. If you said --prefix=/usr/local but didn't specify that 
Python was to be found in /usr, you would have a problem. From the Linux 
download page at vpython.org:

*which python* (find out where Python is located)*
*   Make a note of the /prefix/ preceding /bin/python, such as /usr or 
/usr/local.
(a) If /prefix/ is /usr/local, execute
     *../visual-x.x.x/configure*
(b) If /prefix/ is something else, and Visual can go into 
prefix/lib/python/site-packages, execute
   *  ../visual-x.x.x/configure --prefix=*/prefix/
(c) If you want to use a different version of Python than the one found 
with "which python",
   or (b) is not appropriate, specify both the particular Python and 
where to install Visual:
   *   PYTHON=/somewhere1/bin/python ../visual-x.x.x/configure 
--prefix=/somewhere2*
   If "somewhere1" and "somewhere2" are different, you must also add the 
"somewhere2"
   directory to Python's module search path. For details, at 
www.python.org <http://www.python.org> read section 4.1
   (Modifying Python's Search Path) in the section Installing Python 
Modules of the Python 2.3
   on-line documentation.

Bruce Sherwood

Frédéric Mantegazza wrote:
> On mardi 25 décembre 2007, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>
>   
>> Thanks for the detailed report. I don't expect to be able very soon to
>> address the issue of better reporting of precisely which libraries are
>> missing, but some day.... I'm puzzled about the boost libraries, as I
>> thought those were checked.
>>     
>
> Ok.
>
>   
>> The problem with numpy sounds like an error 
>> in issuing the configure command: you need configure --prefix=/usr if
>> Python and its site-packages are in /usr. As is documented in the
>> install instructions, by default configure assumes the target Python is
>> in /usr/local.
>>     
>
> I understand, but I want to install manually compiled packages 
> in /usr/local, so I set --prefix to that dir. I may have to give another 
> param to tell configure to search dependent libs? Anyway, it is not a big 
> problem.
>
>