Framework installation of 2.6 on OS X, with specified prefix

Evert Rol evert.rol at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 09:30:26 EST 2009


   Hi,

I'm trying to install Python 2.6 from source on Mac OS X.5, in its own  
directory using a framework install. That goes fine, up to the point  
where it wants to install the applications that come with it (eg, the  
Wish shell): it tries to install things into /Applications, instead of  
eg <prefix>/Applications.
Here's my configure line (the flags are there just to let it find my  
own installed readline):

CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib ./configure --prefix=/sw -- 
enable-shared --enable-framework=/sw/Library/Frameworks --with- 
readline=/sw --with-pth CC=gcc-4.2  MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5


And the last part of the output of 'make install':

../python.exe ./scripts/BuildApplet.py \
		--destroot "" \
		--python=/sw/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ 
Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python`test -f "/sw/Library/ 
Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Resources/Python.app/Contents/ 
MacOS/Python-32" && echo "-32"`  \
		--output "/sw/Applications/Python 2.6/Build Applet.app" \
		./scripts/BuildApplet.py
cd PythonLauncher && make install DESTDIR=
test -d "/Applications/Python 2.6" || mkdir -p "/Applications/Python  
2.6"
mkdir: /Applications/Python 2.6: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: *** [install_PythonLauncher] Error 2
make: *** [frameworkinstallapps] Error 2


Is there an option on the configure line that I need to set, or  
something in setup.py? Or perhaps hack the Makefile?

   Evert




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