On Thursday 11 November 2004 23:32, Alan Milligan wrote:
> | %pythonprefix - seems overkill; %{_prefix} will should cover well
>
> Only if you want to place python in /usr/lib. Mostly you would wish
> to do so, and you will almost certainly get bitten if you dont, but
> if for some reason you want to locate python (or another version of
> the same) elsewhere, this allows you to do it.
Where's %perlprefix, %rubyprefix, %cprefix? Toss it; no need.
> | Can someone share with me when get_python_lib() !=
> | get_python_lib(1)? Inquiring minds want to know. %pythondir,
> | %pyexecdir,
> | %python_sitearch, %python_sitelib, are pretty superfluous macros.
>
> Actually they are not. These become critical to overriding makefile
> parameters in quite a few cases, thereby mitigating the need to hack
> third-party setup.py scripts, allowing you to use the vanilla
> third-party tarball :)
Examples? Tarball and spec, please.
thanks,
--
-jeff
