Python 2.1.1 ... stupid error in import.c

[Tim Roberts]

Armin Steinhoff <Armin_member at newsguy.com> wrote:

>In article <uvugotgfhdhf7f0fenfeh27bqakbk9127r at 4ax.com>, Tim says...
>>
>>When you install Python in a Unix-like system, you specify a top-level
>>"prefix".  This is usually either /usr or /usr/local.  The Python binary is
>>then installed in $prefix/bin.  The modules are installed in
>>$prefix/lib/python-2.1 (that is, only the first two digits of the version
>>are used to make the library path).
>
>Sorry ... you missing the point. I didn't install the binaries of Python !!

OK, I think I see what you're saying.  Let me repeat something you
originally wrote:

>>>After some hacking with DDD .. I found out that the pathes used by the search
>>>algorithm of import.c has nothing to do with the directory structure of the
>>>UNIX distribution of Python 2.1.1 =:-/

So, are you saying here that you would like to execute the interpreter out
of the build directory, using the source directory structure?  Later, you
also said this:

>>>I have installed Python in the root directory ...

I interpreted this to mean you INSTALLED Python in the root directory.  But
does this really mean you UNTARRED Python in the root directory?

>>>and set PYTHONHOME/PYTHONPATH to /Python-2.1.1 -> the path to the
>>>library modules is then
>>>
>>>                     -> /Python-2.1.1/Lib
>>
>>What you describe is the way a Windows installation works.
>
>Nonsens ...

Not at all.  That IS the way Python is installed on Windows: the whole
product installs under a single top-level directory, with the modules in a
Lib directory underneath.  This is, however, irrelevant to your original
question.

>You are missing the point ... the search algorithm doesn't meet the 
>directory structure of the source archive of Python-2.1.1!

Right.  It's not SUPPOSED to.  It's supposed to match the directory
structure of an INSTALLED version of Python-2.1.1, meaning one that has had
a  "make" and a "make install".
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