So you want to build something independent of the system python? Is virtualenv and / or anaconda interesting here? On 4 March 2017 at 17:36, Alice Wonder <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Working on a project to create clean spec files for libbitcoin for CentOS > 7 (and eventually I want them to work in Fedora 25+ too) > > These spec files must work with the user defines an alternate %{_prefix} > before building them. > > This means that python components would be installed in /opt/libbitcoin > (or whatever) instead of in /usr so %{python2_sitelib} and > %{python2_sitearch} no longer would apply. > > sys.path.append looks like the way to tell python about a new path to look > for stuff, but I'm guessing there are guidelines somewhere for how that is > suppose to properly done from within spec files. > > Unfortunately I can't find them, and search engines are getting harder and > harder to use to find technical related information, always changing my > query and showing me completely unrelated results. > > Anyway I didn't see anything in the Fedora packaging guidelines for > python, that seems to be targeting a prefix of /usr > > Thanks for any links or suggestions. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos