Re: Python installation

[Raymund Ramos <rayr@workbench-01.ucsc.edu> writes:]

>vsta$ make install
>[regular make stuff, and python compiles fine but...]
>./install-sh: exec fmt
>make: Error code 1
>perm
>vsta$

Hmmm, all I recollect is the python library directory needs to be copied
over to its canonical place.

>also, when I run python from the same directory,
>I get a bunch of file not found errors and
>goes through looking for environment variables
>which it can't find also.

Yes, python whines a bit if it can't find its library directory. It comes
up OK in the end, right?

>Do I need bash or something?

No, nothing like that. I think just "mkdir /vsta/lib/python15" and then "cp
lib/*.py /vsta/lib/python15", executed from the python source dir, should do
the trick. But I thought I stuffed the python libraries into the python
distribution directly?

If it isn't the library directory, then offhand I can't recall anything else
special I did with the python port. Does the pre-built binary work
correctly for you? That'll give a clue as to whether it's a compilation
environment thing or a run-time one.

                                                        Andy
Received on Thu Mar 18 05:09:31 1999