Issue 420565: makes setup.py search sys.prefix

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Title:	makes setup.py search sys.prefix
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Created on 2001-05-01 21:24 by anonymous, last changed 2022-04-10 16:04 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Files
File name	Uploaded	Description	Edit
setup.py.patch	nobody, 2001-05-01 21:24	patch for setup.py

Messages (6)
msg36489 - (view)	Author: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)	Date: 2001-05-01 21:24
It's useful to have setup.py search the lib and include directories in sys.prefix before it checks /usr/local. That way, if you are building Python into a custom location and want it to use the the libraries installed there rather than the system defaults, you can give the --prefix option to configure and setup.py will search that path first.
msg36490 - (view)	Author: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)	Date: 2001-06-01 15:19
Logged In: NO I totally agree. I'm building for hard hat linux on a debian host, and the implicit search in /usr/lib is totally the wrong thing to do in this case.
msg36491 - (view)	Author: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum) *	Date: 2001-12-10 15:59
Logged In: YES user_id=6380 Michael, can you have a look at this for Python 2.3 (or 2.2.1)?
msg36492 - (view)	Author: Michael Hudson (mwh)	Date: 2001-12-10 16:10
Logged In: YES user_id=6656 Umm, yeah sure. I think I'd rather use sysconfig.get_config_var("LIBDIR") than sys.prefix+"/lib", though.
msg36493 - (view)	Author: Michael Hudson (mwh)	Date: 2001-12-23 22:02
Logged In: YES user_id=6656
msg36494 - (view)	Author: Michael Hudson (mwh)	Date: 2002-01-17 15:51
Logged In: YES user_id=6656 Right, I've checked something similar in, as revision 1.75 of setup.py. I did this yesterday, but sf was playing silly buggers.