Relocatable python install

[Michel]

Hi,

I would like to create a binary package of python that we will ship
with our product. I need to be able to install the package anywhere in
the file system.

The interpreter seems to be ok with that, but a few other tools that
are installed in the PREFIX/bin directory (pydoc, py2to3, python-
config,...) contain hardcoded path to the interpreter.

Is there a way around that? Or an configure option to prevent these
files to be installed?

Regards,

Michel.

 

[Mike Kent]

Hi,

I would like to create a binary package of python that we will ship
with our product. I need to be able to install the package anywhere in
the file system.

The interpreter seems to be ok with that, but a few other tools that
are installed in the PREFIX/bin directory (pydoc, py2to3, python-
config,...) contain hardcoded path to the interpreter.

Is there a way around that? Or an configure option to prevent these
files to be installed?

Regards,

Michel.

The standard way to handle this seems to be to write a post-install
script that edits the interpreter path in those scripts to point it to
the actual install path. I had to handle the same thing, and others
have done it as well.

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

The standard way to handle this seems to be to write a post-install
script that edits the interpreter path in those scripts to point it to
the actual install path. I had to handle the same thing, and others
have done it as well.

Note that scripts installed using distutils.core.setup(scripts=[...], ...)
get the fix automatically.