Re: [Straw-devel] .py install location

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:15:32 +0000, Ross Burton <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As you may know, I'm the maintainer of the Debian packages for Straw.

Here a maintainer for FreeBSD.

> Up until now, I've been putting the straw/*.py files in /usr/lib/straw/,
> and then editing /usr/bin/straw to add that path to the search path.
>
> However, now the distutils code is installing the .py files into
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages.  This makes perfect sense for an
> extension module, but I don't want to pollute the site-packages tree
> with Straw.  Does anyone know how I can change the install directory for
> the library, or do I have to move it post-install?

Use --install-lib=${PREFIX}/path/to should work, which what I am using in 
the straw port.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Regards,
> Ross


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