Re: [Issue 1125] - Python SWIG bindings don't install correctly

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:07:00PM -0500, Brandon Ehle wrote:
>...
> I install a stock Linux distro, my python sits in /usr and doesn't
> recognize any modules in /usr/local/pythonXXX/site-packages.

Correct.

> In the subversion dir, I run the following:
>
> ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make install && make install-swig-py-ext
>
> At this point would gsvn work?

Nope.

The default prefix for SVN is /usr/local. So according to the scheme that I
detailed in the issue, we would not attempt to install the bindings into the
system's Python site-packages. The fallback in this case would be
/usr/local/lib/svn-python/

If you configured and built SVN with --prefix=/usr, then the bindings
*would* be installed into Python. Or if you left the default prefix, but
passed something like --pythondir=/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages.

I know that it would be nice to have the default simply install working
bindings. But as long as the default prefix is /usr/local, and your Python
site-packages is located in /usr, then it won't happen automatically.

Cheers,
-g

p.s. note that install-swig-py-ext will be obsoleted (hopefully) soonish.
the "real" build rules are swig-py and install-swig-py. those rules work
now, but the installation part doesn't (yet) copy over the .py files and
precompile them.

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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