Installation in a local directory

[s.mcdaniel]

On Apr 25, 12:37 am, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Sean McDaniel wrote:
> > Hi y'all,
>
> > I'm trying to perform a local install of python at work in my user
> > directory. Everything compiles correctly, but I can't seem to tell the
> > configure script the location of the bin and lib directories where I
> > want my stuff. I've think I've passed the correct flags to the
> > 'configure' script.
>
> > make clean
> > ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/user/mcdaniel/arch32
> > make
>
> > where arch32 contains the the lib and bin directories where I want my
> > python stuff to go.  Unfortunately these directories are not written to;
> > everything ends up in the default location from where I ran 'make'.
> > Moreover, if I add a symbolic link from the python binary (which I can
> > run directly without problems) to the bin directory so that my PATH will
> > recognize the new python, I get an error about loading shared libraries.
>
> > I'm making on a 32 bit new debian system.
>
> > Thank you for your help,
>
> Did you run "make install" yet? It's that step that moves the binaries
> to where they should live. As it says in
>
>    http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/
>
> """Change to the Python-2.5 directory and run the "./configure", "make",
> "make install" commands to compile and install Python."""
>
> regards
>   Steve
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Damnit,

That was exactly the problem. Thank you.

Sean