Bug 92216

Summary:	patch for distutils.eclass to install scripts into /usr/bin on ppc-macos
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	dan <reddan>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo for Mac OS X <ppc-macos>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	91393
Attachments:	makes distutils.eclass install scripts into /usr/bin on ppc-macos

Description dan 2005-05-10 23:27:46 UTC

The standard OSX python distutils distribution by default installs scripts into /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/ which is not in the users' standard search PATH.

This two-line patch makes distutils.eclass adds the option "--install-scripts /usr/bin" to the "setup.py install" command, only for ppc-macos.

I realise that users can simply add the above directory to their PATH variable, but this is not the ideal solution, as some OSX gui apps (ie carbon emacs with ipython support) need certain python scripts in /usr/bin for full functionality.

Note that this is a solution to bug #84815 - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84815

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 dan 2005-05-10 23:33:21 UTC

Created attachment 58645 [details, diff]
makes distutils.eclass install scripts into /usr/bin on ppc-macos

patch -p0 <distutils.eclass.patch

Comment 2 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2007-09-01 11:19:58 UTC

Please use prefix, where we use our own python on OSX