Framework installation of 2.6 on OS X, with specified prefix

[Ben Kaplan]

On Feb 20, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Evert Rol <evert.rol at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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
>


It's a security thing- only root can write to directories like / 
Applications. You need to run " sudo make install". You'll be promoted  
for your password and then it will install.
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