On Apr 18, 12:36 pm, Florian Demmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I am doing a from source installation of Python 2.5 on some old Debian > machine. As the target directoy I want /opt/somename so i added it to > the configure like so: > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/somedir > > The following make works fine as far as I can see. Then the make > install also actually works and installs python in /opt/somedir with > all its subdirectoris (bin, lib, man, include). > The extensions (*.so) however get put in /usr/local/lib/... and there > also in the wrong python directoy: 2.4
...and the current /usr/bin/python symlink points to the 2.4 installation (from .deb) > This is a c/p of the make install output: > [...] > running build_scripts > running install_lib > changing mode of /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_struct.so to > 755 > changing mode of /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes.so to > 755 > [...] > > (How) can I change the install_dir for the extensions? > Why does it use python2.4 anyway?! What env var or else is set here > that I cannot find? > > thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
