making symlinks with distutils

[Sylvain Thenault]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 04:59:51 -0800, Michele Simionato wrote:

> Sylvain Thenault:
>> Actually it does install it is $PREFIX/bin.
> 
> Aha! And how do I set $PREFIX? Is it a Unix environment variable or is it
> a keyword argument in setup? Something like setup( prefix="/usr") ?

it's a command line argument of the "install" command:

python setup.py install --prefix=~/

or

python setup.py install --home=~/

(the difference between --home and --prefix is that the former will
install library in $PREFIX/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages while the latter
will install it in $PREFIX/lib/python/

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