Installation in a local directory

[Sean McDaniel]

Hi y'all,

I'm trying to perform a local install of python at work in my user
directory. Everything compiles correctly, but I can't seem to tell the
configure script the location of the bin and lib directories where I
want my stuff. I've think I've passed the correct flags to the
'configure' script.

make clean
../configure --enable-shared --prefix=/user/mcdaniel/arch32
make

where arch32 contains the the lib and bin directories where I want my
python stuff to go. Unfortunately these directories are not written
to; everything ends up in the default location from where I ran 'make'.
Moreover, if I add a symbolic link from the python binary (which I can
run directly without problems) to the bin directory so that my PATH
will recognize the new python, I get an error about loading shared
libraries.

I'm making on a 32 bit new debian system.

Thank you for your help,

Sean McDaniel

[Steve Holden]

Sean McDaniel wrote:

Hi y'all,

I'm trying to perform a local install of python at work in my user
directory. Everything compiles correctly, but I can't seem to tell the
configure script the location of the bin and lib directories where I
want my stuff. I've think I've passed the correct flags to the
'configure' script.

make clean
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/user/mcdaniel/arch32
make

where arch32 contains the the lib and bin directories where I want my
python stuff to go. Unfortunately these directories are not written to;
everything ends up in the default location from where I ran 'make'.
Moreover, if I add a symbolic link from the python binary (which I can
run directly without problems) to the bin directory so that my PATH will
recognize the new python, I get an error about loading shared libraries.

I'm making on a 32 bit new debian system.

Thank you for your help,

Did you run "make install" yet? It's that step that moves the binaries
to where they should live. As it says in

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/

"""Change to the Python-2.5 directory and run the "./configure", "make",
"make install" commands to compile and install Python."""

regards
Steve
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Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

[s.mcdaniel]

On Apr 25, 12:37 am, Steve Holden <[e-mail]:

Sean McDaniel wrote:

Hi y'all,

I'm trying to perform a local install of python at work in my user
directory. Everything compiles correctly, but I can't seem to tell the
configure script the location of the bin and lib directories where I
want my stuff. I've think I've passed the correct flags to the
'configure' script.

make clean
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/user/mcdaniel/arch32
make

where arch32 contains the the lib and bin directories where I want my
python stuff to go. Unfortunately these directories are not written to;
everything ends up in the default location from where I ran 'make'.
Moreover, if I add a symbolic link from the python binary (which I can
run directly without problems) to the bin directory so that my PATH will
recognize the new python, I get an error about loading shared libraries.

I'm making on a 32 bit new debian system.

Thank you for your help,

Did you run "make install" yet? It's that step that moves the binaries
to where they should live. As it says in

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/

"""Change to the Python-2.5 directory and run the "./configure", "make",
"make install" commands to compile and install Python."""

regards
Steve
--
Steve Holden [phone] [phone]
Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

Damnit,

That was exactly the problem. Thank you.

Sean