[sage-devel] Re: python setup.py picks prefix from ~/.pydistutils.cfg

2010-07-20 Thread Alexander Dreyer
Hi! > I've used python very little, so my skills in that are poor, so I am > not going to suggest what may or may not be the best way to do this. > However, I will point you at > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9551 Maybe the python patch will also work for you. Best regards, Alexan

[sage-devel] Re: python setup.py picks prefix from ~/.pydistutils.cfg

2010-07-20 Thread Alexander Dreyer
Hi there! > An alternative would be to to patch distutils to obey some environment > variable. I backported the --no-user-cfg stuff in python's distutils and added an environment variable for simplifying the usage. The patched skpg is here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/dreyer/suse101/python

Re: [sage-devel] Re: python setup.py picks prefix from ~/.pydistutils.cfg

2010-07-19 Thread David Kirkby
On 19 July 2010 16:32, Alexander Dreyer wrote: > Hi! >> Maybe, if the installation procedures makes use of python's distutils. > In python 2.7 there the --no-user-config option to python setup.py. > But backporting that would still need to add --no-user-config to 30+ > spkgs. > (This is suggested

[sage-devel] Re: python setup.py picks prefix from ~/.pydistutils.cfg

2010-07-19 Thread Alexander Dreyer
Hi! > Maybe, if the installation procedures makes use of python's distutils. In python 2.7 there the --no-user-config option to python setup.py. But backporting that would still need to add --no-user-config to 30+ spkgs. (This is suggested in the case of rpms, for instance.) An alternative would b

[sage-devel] Re: python setup.py picks prefix from ~/.pydistutils.cfg

2010-07-18 Thread Alexander Dreyer
Hi! > Could what you found be the reason I get these problems? Perhaps your ticket > is > a solution. Maybe, if the installation procedures makes use of python's distutils. Regards, Alexander -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group