From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arun Sharma Subject: Re: make dist and python files Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:28:26 -0800 Message-ID: <41E4530A.8040603@intel.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Keir Fraser Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Keir Fraser wrote: >>So my question is, why not have >> >># make dist >> >>also populate >> >>dist/install/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/xen >> >>Of course, this won't work for situations where the build machine and >>the target machine have a different version of python. > > > Exactly. > > All our tools add /lib/python to their library search path, so if you > install by copying to dist/* to / then things will work -- no need to > manually add /lib/python to your search path. Then why not have just one place to install files for both the install and dist targets? Also, I wonder what the distro hackers and FHS experts on the list have to say about the target directory (/lib/python)? -Arun ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt