[XML-SIG] Installing to split prefix/exec-prefix

[Luis P Caamano]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin v. Loewis [mailto:martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de]
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 6:45 PM
> To: lpc@racemi.com
> Cc: xml-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re: [XML-SIG] Installing to split prefix/exec-prefix
> 
> 
> > After playing with split prefix/exec_prefix I've found that it
> > has not been tested much outside of python itself, which works
> > fine with split dirs.  My opinion is that split dirs just
> > doesn't work as advertised in practice.
> 
> Where did you see any advertisement for exec_prefix that made you
> think PyXML should not install into it? Exact quote please, if
> possible.

Not PyXML specifically.  What made think that was this quote from
the Python distribution README file:

***
This will install all platform-independent files in subdirectories of
the directory given with the --prefix option to configure or to the
`prefix' Make variable (default /usr/local).  All binary and other
platform-specific files will be installed in subdirectories if the
directory given by --exec-prefix or the `exec_prefix' Make variable
(defaults to the --prefix directory) is given.
***

So, that works great with Python, but then when you install other
extensions/packages, things are not so neat ... for example ...
PyXML.  I've learned now that this is not a PyXML specific issue,
but regardless, "things don't work for everything as the quote
above led me to believe."  Granted, it doesn't say anything about
PyXML or any other extension/package but still, I just thought
that exec_prefix was for "binaries and platform specific files."

Regards,
Luis

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Luis P. Caamano 
lcaamano@mindspring.com
Atlanta, GA, USA
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