From: UnixOS2 Archive
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 05:00:40 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 83

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Wednesday 26 March 2003
 Number  83
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  Building Python : Dave and Natalie" <dave_yeo at mindlink.bc.ca>
2   Building Python : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>

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Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:05:10 -0800
From:  "Dave and Natalie" <dave_yeo at mindlink.bc.ca>
Subject:  Re:  Building Python

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:31:05 +0000, John Poltorak wrote:

>
>I'd like to build and install Python into a more Unix-like directory 
>structure. Can anyone tell me where it is usually installed?

On my Debian partition it is installed \usr\lib eg
Directory of L:\usr\lib

 1-03-03   1:40a     <DIR>           0  python1.5
 7-28-02   6:55a     <DIR>           0  python2.1
 1-03-03   1:00a     <DIR>           0  python2.2

with a couple of binaries in /usr/bin eg

9-14-02   8:09a      2980           0  python1.5
4-20-02   8:32a    517864           0  python2.1

Also python is a symlink most likely (OS/2 can't read the symlinks on
ext2fs) to whichever version you want to run.

/usr/share/man/man1 is laid out the same way as /usr/bin eg python.1.gz
is a symlink with python1.5.1.gz and python2.1.1.gz
Dave
ps I don't have python2.2 installed. /usr/lib/python2.2 just contains
site-packages/debconf.py which looks to be part of Debians bug
reporting
pps there is also a /usr/lib/site-python which seems to just have some
scripts for reporting bugs in Debian
Dave



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Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:31:05 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:   Building Python



I'd like to build and install Python into a more Unix-like directory 
structure. Can anyone tell me where it is usually installed?

BTW I was very surprised to find the distributed source for v2.2.2 built 
straight out of the box *without* the OS/2 patches in my UX2BS environment 
simply by running configure & make.

I doubt whether it works very well so hope to add the patches and see what 
difference it makes.

Should I be able to add the patches using:-  ?


patch <python-2.2.2-os2emx.diff

This patch looks different to others I've seen as it includes a number of 
RCS headers which I've never come across before. Is there anything unusual  
to look out for?


-- 
John