Re: PYTHONPATH follies

2017-01-24 Thread Hal Murray
e...@thyrsus.com said: > There are two different possible assumptions about where Python user > libraries should be installed. If the sys.path in your Python installation > makes the same assumption as waf, all is good. If not, waf lands our > libries in the wrong place and you have to set PYTHON

Re: PYTHONPATH follies

2017-01-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > >> Some/many OS distros won't find our installed python libraries. > > If my diagnosis is correct, you'll find that the unaltered PYTHONPATH on > > platforms where you have this problem is pointing at something like /usr/ > > local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages - please confirm. > >

Re: PYTHONPATH follies

2017-01-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Hal! On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:33:37 -0800 Hal Murray wrote: > >> Some/many OS distros won't find our installed python libraries. > > If my diagnosis is correct, you'll find that the unaltered > > PYTHONPATH on platforms where you have this problem is pointing at > > something like /usr/ loca

Re: PYTHONPATH follies

2017-01-23 Thread Hal Murray
>> Some/many OS distros won't find our installed python libraries. > If my diagnosis is correct, you'll find that the unaltered PYTHONPATH on > platforms where you have this problem is pointing at something like /usr/ > local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages - please confirm. Are we on the same wavel

PYTHONPATH follies

2017-01-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal, you wrote this: Some/many OS distros won't find our installed python libraries. Your shell will need something like this: export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages CentOS 6 is using python 2.6 export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages (I put it in