On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:30:33AM EST, Willie Walker wrote:
Hi Luke: The main reason we suggest --prefix=/usr is that sys.path in Python doesn't include /usr/local. Here's output from the python interpreter on my FC4 box:print sys.path['', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.4', '/usr/lib/ python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/ python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages', '/usr/lib/ python2.4/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ gtk-2.0']
Ok, here is my output on a freshly updated Ubuntu Dapper system:
print sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.4', '/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/HTMLgen', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cairo', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/site-python'] The only thing in the /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages directory is orca, and having just checked another dapper machine, /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages is also listed. I'd say the Ubuntu guys have made sure that this is the case.
Plus, there are no *.pth files that get us to /usr/local. As a result, I think the python interpreter will have a tough time finding the orca package unless you do something such as set the PYTHONPATH environment variable or set up a *.pth file. We probably could work around this, though, by modifying Orca's copy of sys.path on startup.
Well, all I can say is that Orca is running with no apparent problems, either with the core, or with application specific scripts.
PS - Although http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html says python on Unix typically looks in /usr/local/lib/python, I've not found this to be the case.
I'll take your word on that, as I haven't seen how other distros do it.
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