Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH] Build: add the configuration variable python_libdir.

[Beat Bolli]

On 04.12.13 21:49, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Beat Bolli <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> This lets the user choose the Python install directory.
> 
> Your patch seems ok, but
> 
>> With the default settings, gpsd is installed under /usr/local,
>> except for the Python parts, which are installed in the system
>> directories under /usr/lib/pythonx.y/site-packages.
> 
> That sounds perhaps broken.  The only sane  places are a) in the PREFIX
> of gpsd and b) where the found python has site-packages, which might be
> someplace other than /usr/lib.  In particular, it would be /usr/pkg on
> pkgsrc.   If you meant "where the python interpreter thinks of as the
> standard place" rather than /usr/lib/pythonx.y/site-packages", then I
> think we're all set.
> 
> I haven't been noticing this issue; I hope that's because I've been
> building with prefix=/usr/pkg and python is also there so all choices
> end up with the same directory anyway.
> 
>> This option allows to install the Python parts under /usr/local.

The help for get_python_lib() says:

Help on function get_python_lib in module distutils.sysconfig:

get_python_lib(plat_specific=0, standard_lib=0, prefix=None)
    Return the directory containing the Python library (standard or
    site additions).

    If 'plat_specific' is true, return the directory containing
    platform-specific modules, i.e. any module from a non-pure-Python
    module distribution; otherwise, return the platform-shared library
    directory.  If 'standard_lib' is true, return the directory
    containing standard Python library modules; otherwise, return the
    directory for site-specific modules.

    If 'prefix' is supplied, use it instead of sys.prefix or
    sys.exec_prefix -- i.e., ignore 'plat_specific'.

Passing prefix='/usr/local' yields the correct path under Linux, but
ignores the plat_specific argument. Would this hurt on other platforms?

-- 
mail: echo '<address@hidden>' | tr -d '[A-S]'
pgp: 0x506A903A; 49D5 794A EA77 F907 764F  D89E 304B 93CF 506A 903A
gsm: 4.7.7.6.0.7.7.9.7.1.4.e164.arpa
icbm: 47.0452 N, 7.2715 E

"It takes love over gold, and mind over matter" -- Dire Straits

signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature