[pypy-dev] newbie needs pypy setup help

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Maciej Fijalkowski Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:48:26 +0200
>>>>> Precisely what didn't work?
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> Ken Watford Sun Jul 31 19:59:55 CEST 2011
>>>> The permissions are fine if you're the owner of the files. If another
>>>> user (say, root) untars them,
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> Tom Roche Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:03:34 -0400
>>> e.g., to install FHS-ly
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>>>> other users may not have appropriate read/execute permissions.
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> Maciej Fijalkowski Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:07:17 +0200
>> as far as I understood, the tarballs are for [extracting] in-place not
>> for installs without serious massaging
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> Not so much massage is required (e.g., my bash script from
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> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-July/007893.html
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> does it, as does Dan Stromberg's @
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> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-July/007894.html
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> ) but It Would Be Nice for new adopters if the download page documented things like this, esp if intentional. Currently it says only
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> http://pypy.org/download.html#installing
>> Installing
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>> All versions are packaged in a tar.bz2 or zip file. When uncompressed,
>> they run in-place. For now you can uncompress them either somewhere in
>> your home directory or, say, in /opt, and if you want, put a symlink
>> from somewhere like /usr/local/bin/pypy to /path/to/pypy-1.5/bin/pypy.
>> Do not move or copy the executable pypy outside the tree – put a
>> symlink to it, otherwise it will not find its libraries.
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> FWIW, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>
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Cool, feel like providing a patch?

Cheers,
fijal