[Zope3-dev] Re: hardcoding make install prefix

[Tres Seaver]

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germ wrote:
> I have created a SlackBuild (slackware package builder script) for
> Zope 3.1.  After the package is created and run, all files are sent to
> the correct locations and work properly.  The problem I'm receiving,
> which is more of an annoyance than a problem, is that upon receiving
> an error in one of my python files, it will trace the call sequence to
> a file that doesn't exist:  File
> "/tmp/package-zope/usr/lib/python/zope/app/server/main.py".  It is a
> file that was created with make install prefix=/tmp/package-zope/usr
> but later packaged up and installed to /usr; thus,
> /usr/lib/python/app/server/main.py exists, but not
> /tmp/package-zope/usr/lib/python/zope/app/server/main.py.  Is make
> install hardcoding the prefix somewhere?
> 
> In summary, the script does a ./configure --prefix=/usr --force &&
> make && make install prefix=/tmp/package-zope/usr.  The script is then
> packaged with makepkg.
> 
> I hope this is the appropriate place discuss this problem.

You need to arrange to get the ".pyc" files recompileds *after* the py
files are in their correct paths.  There is a script, 'compilezpy.py',
which can be run from the installed location to do this.


Tres.
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