how to install PIL system-wide?

[Gabriel Zachmann]

Could some kind soul please explain to me how I should install 
PIL (python image library) system-wide under Unix, so that
people don't explicitely have to set their PYTHONPATH environment
variable??

I compiled PIL, 'make check' worked,
the I copied it, according to the README, under
/path/python-1.5.2/lib/python-1.5/site-packages/PIL.
That didn't work.

Maybe, because
    print sys.path
said
['', '/igd/a4/software/python-1.5.2/lib/python1.5/',
'/igd/a4/software/python-1.5.2/lib/python1.5/plat-irix646',
'/igd/a4/software/python-1.5.2/lib/python1.5/lib-tk',
'/igd/a4/software/python-1.5.2/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload']
(in one line, of course ;-)

So I moved PIL to /igd/a4/software/python-1.5.2/lib/python1.5/plat-irix646.
Now, there is a subdirectory PIL in plat-irix646.
In that directory, there is a file __init__.py
(which is empty except for a few comments),
and there is a file PIL.pth in directory plat-irix646,
which contains just the word "PIL".

I'm confused: it should work shouldn't it?

I looked at the FAQ, of course, but that talke mainly about Tk, and X
modules, and I searched dejanews, to no avail.
(From dejanews I learned about the __init__.py file ;-)

Any hints, suggestions, insights
will be highly appreciated,
Gab.


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