Re: Orca Installation problem

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks for checking this out.  Looks like Orca's working well for you  
with no parameters passed to configure because /usr/local/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages is in Python's sys.path on Ubuntu Dapper.   
The presence of /usr/local in sys.path on Fedora Core 4, Solaris, or  
the Mac doesn't seem to be the case, though.  Hopefully my word here  
is as good as my fingers typing "import sys; print sys.path" and  
looking at the output - there's no magic guru stuff I'm doing.  :-)

I'm working on the Orca web page right now and will capture this  
discussion there.

Thanks!

Will

On Mar 29, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:

> 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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