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

[Greg Troxel]

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.

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