New submission from Isaac (.ike) Levy:
There are currently 73 files with hard-coded references to /usr/local,
To see what I'm talking about, unpack a source Python tarball, and check it out
like so:
# cd Python-2.7.3
# grep -Rl '\/usr\/local' ./* | wc -l
73
To read more detail,
# grep -R '\/usr\/local' ./*
Some of these hardcoded /usr/local lines are innocuous or merely misleading,
./README: 1) CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash CC=cc RANLIB=: \
- or -
./Demo/tkinter/guido/ManPage.py: MANDIR = '/usr/local/man/mann'
Yet, some of these create unexpected installation behavior when configuring
using the --prefix flag to specify an alternative install location,
./setup.py: # Ensure that /usr/local is always used
- or-
./setup.py: db_inc_paths.append('/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.%d/include'
% x)
(Are items installed outside of your --prefix? Which ones? What about
dependencies compiled outside of /usr/local?)
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A terrible solution
It seems most UNIX package managers elect some form of finding and replace all
occurances, for example,
# dirty deeds, done dirt cheap
for i in `grep -Rl '\/usr\/local' ./*` ; do
safe sed -i 's#\/usr\/local#\/usr\/mypath#g' "$i"
done
./configure --prefix="/usr/mypath"
...continue the make dance...
#################
A better solution
Prioritize some re-factoring work Python 2.7.3 installation, just enough to get
sysadmins like myself by until Python3000 is commonplace...
I'd be happy to help, but as a community outsider, I'm not sure how to make the
cleanup work stick.
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components: Installation
messages: 179246
nosy: ikeaxial
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python 2.7 has 73 files with hard references to /usr/local when building
on *NIX
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.7
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